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+ Stage 3, from 8 August (12235 houses were fully destroyed and 1,18,075 houses were, partially damaged), 12.Relief camps accommodating individuals and families from different situations may turn to, centres of turmoil in many parts of the world. Why?, + Clashes for food, + Problems related to drinking water and pollution, + Create complexities, 13.Relief camp turned into model centres of humanity. Comment on the statement., + In Kerala each relief camp turned into model centres of humanity where people shared their, Aifficulties, damages and losses as a single family., 4.1 is the humanitarian face for survival that we experienced in Kerala during the floods. Justify, OR, How did your society participate in the rescue operations during the floods?, ‘+ ‘The public establishments including the schools provided asylum to those rushing out of their, drowning houses., + The local people, their representatives as well as the officials helped them., + As flood rose to uncontrollable limits Army, Navy and Air force swing in to action., + Different departments and officials under the Government of Kerala worked hard throughout, day and night., + Itwas the fishermen who served as active life savers by tackling the flood differently., +The Kerala society acknowledged them by mentioning as'the own army’ of Kerala who, defeated the flood,, + ‘The people from unaffected regions helped the worst sufferers in cash and kind by avoiding., ‘Onam celebrations,, +The Keralites from all over the world stood with a single mind to help the sufferers., + Kerala youth was noticeable in rescue operations, relief camps, as well as in the collection, and warehousing of resources to sufferers., 15.Find out the different reasons for occurrence of floods in Kerala?, + Reclaiming the paddy fields for other purposes, + The filling of low lying regions in large scale obstructs the percolation of water which in turn, causes floods., ‘+ Activities like massive demolition of hills, rock quarrying, sand mining from rivers may lead, , to negative environmental impacts, , + Unscientific land-use, + Considerable decline of natural forests and transformation of forests to crops have caused., soil erosion., + Human interventions and the construction activities in the ecologically fragile zones, 16What are the precautionary measures to be taken to prevent floods and landslides from becoming, disasters?, + Its essential to create environmental awareness in people., ‘+ Must give scientific environmental education from childhood itself, + Each one of us are bound to obey the existing rules., +The side walls around the houses will be build by bio-fencings with bush plants instead of, those with bricks and cement., , +The people of Kerala must be provided with the awareness and skill to go on with the, , , , development activities without causing much harm to the natural environment., , + By nurturing such a culture we can check natural calamities from becoming severe disasters.