Torrential rain for the last few days in Chennai has already cost 450 precious lives. People are stranded and isolated without electricity, telephone both landline and mobile due to the flood. As usual poor are the worst affected as they had to vacate from their makeshift shelters and some of the families are also stranded and starving. Patients are being shifted to safer places as the hospitals are flooded.

Rescue and relief operations are undertaken by the army,navy disaster management forum and many NGOs. However it is reported that the state machinery of Tamil Nadu utterly failed to extend help to the needy and even coordinating the relief operations of those actively participating. It is also a shame on the ruling party,AIADMK to insist the NGOs to paste Jayalalitha’s sticker on the food packets supplied by the NGOs.

Now,the flood situation is slowly improving as the rain has stopped for some time.