The first and second week of July 2010 saw a big flood disaster in Punjab and Haryana districts in Ghaggar basin. An analysis by SANDRP of this disaster shows that the flood became a disaster and the disaster spread largely due to man made reasons, including ill designed and inadequately maintained canals, embankments, not using the information of upstream rains and floods, encroachment of the flood plains amongst others.
A more detailed map, including chronology of flood events
Please see the attached reports for more details:
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