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Floods and Flash Floods in Himachal Pradesh

Vinod Kumar

Himachal Pradesh is a multi-hazard prone state. It comes under zone III and IV according seismic hazard zone map of India. The state of Himachal Pradesh has been facing widespread and extensive damages almost every year because of natural calamities, unprecedented droughts situation, excessive rains, snow and flash flood due to cloud burst etc. which have been taking its toll of human lives, cattle heads, destruction of public utilities, roads, bridges, footpaths, culverts, landslides and washing away of drinking water supply and irrigation schemes and damage to public and private properties making a dependent into the already fragile economy of the state. This paper focuses on analyzing natural disaster floods in Himachal Pradesh and also describes the main mitigation strategies during floods natural disasters. The universe of the study was very wide and vast. Therefore due to constraints of resources and time only floods in Himachal Pradesh and Main Mitigation strategies for floods were studied. In the present paper the data was collected through primary and secondary sources.