Rain and flood havoc in Karnataka

Coupled with corona heavy rain in malnad(5-6 districts adjesent to costal area in interior Karnataka) and costal areas and floods in north interior Karnataka made life miserable in the state. 6 people dead apart from thousands of animals like cows, buffaloes and sheep. National Highway connecting Kerala and Maharashtra passes through Mangaluru and Karawara is closed for traffic due to flood. Heavy rain bashing the costal areas has not given any respite since last one week. All the rivers like Kumaradhara, Netravathi are flowing above the danger level. Crops like paddy, banana in hundreds of hectares destroyed in the monsoon rain.

River Kaveri takes   birth in Talakaveri in Kodagu previously called Coorg. Bramhagiri hill in Bhagamandala is the place where holy Kaveri river takes birth. Unfortunately a portion of the hill collapsed killing 5 members of the priests family as their house caved in due to torrential rain. Despite the warning the Archaka Anandathirtha swamiji and his family lived in the damaged house near Talakaveri to perform daily pooja to the goddess Kaveri. He refused to move out of that house having total belief in the god. He used to say that Kaveri will always protect from any danger. But unfortunately his belief is lost in the fury of torrential rain, no goddess saved their life. Tragedy does not end there, due to heavy down pour the relief work is very slow and only one body recovered so far despite the operation by NDDF. The reason for landslide is mainly due to the construction of resorts and swimming pools on the top of the hill as well as in the entire region for commercial purposes. Along with this the forest department  ha taken developmental work like storage ponds.

The districts adjoining the coastal belt like Chikkamagaluru, Hassan, Shivamogga which are called Malanad area where coffee is grown in the western ghat region receiving heavy rain no causing flood in the rivers like Tingabhadra, Hemavathi, Kapila. Krishnaraj sagar dam KRS in Mandya district is allowing 75 thouand cusecs of water to the river Kaveri. KRS is the main reservoir which  lets water to Tamilnadu as per the schedule of the Kaveri Tribunal. KRS is about to fill full. A girl child of 2 years drowned in Kaveri waters near Mysore.

The districts like Belagavi, Bidar, Vijayapura, Kalaburgi are flooded as the rivers flowing above the danger mark due to heavy downpour in Maharashtra. The Koyna dam is letting water to Krishna river. Hence hundreds of villages on the bank of Krishna and its tributaries are facing the wrath due to over flowing.Many bridges have submerged making the transport miserable. Crops like cotton, wheat, chillies destroyed making farmers life difficult. There are sporadic reports of deaths in these districts.