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Unexpected More than 15 days have passed and there is no sign of water receding in the flood affected areas of Bihar. Neither state government nor the people were ready to meet such a wide spread devastation Though floods are caused by monsoon every year in Bihar but Kosi floods have shook not the state by also the nation. People are dying not only because of drowning but also because of hunger and floods related illnesses. These floods have affected more than 30,00,000 people and till now almost 6,00,000 have been evacuated and 2, 00,000 have been shifted to the relief camps.

Rescue And Relief State as well as Center government’s inept response have increased the woes of the flood affected people. Center government took one week to declare the Bihar floods a national calamity And 5 columns of military were sent to the flood affected areas to carry out the relief and rescue operations. Soon, government realized that it is not enough to carry out the relief work. 16 more columns of army were pressed into action. Except it Air force and Navy personal have also been pressed into action. It is being said that it will take two days to evacuated the remaining affected people. But relief and rescue work does not end here. It is just the initial stage of the work.

Priorities Second most important priority of the government is to establish well organized relief camps with proper facilities. And it is not an easy task to build relief camps for lakhs of people. After it, the priority should be given to ensure the proper and adequate supply of relief material. As there are reports that most of the flood affected people are suffering from the flood related ailments it becomes the necessity that they should be provided proper health care immediately. It will take months to recede the water and only then affected people will be able to return to their homes. As incidents of loot and stealing have been reported in some areas it becomes necessary for the government to ensure safety of the people in relief camps and their abandoned homes. On the other hand floods have brought many others social problems with them as child trafficking.

All these problems can be tackled under a well organized central command. But till now government has failed even to rescue the marooned people in a planned and organized manner. How it will handle the such of big task of providing relief and medical help to such a large number of people. In such circumstances we can say that only 10 percent work has been done. Real problems are yet to be tackled.