September 25, 2025
Monsoon Became the Season of Devastating Floods
This is not one bad monsoon in one region — it's a pattern showing up across India
What's happening?
- Uttarakhand (Dharali): Heavy rainfall and flash floods on August 5.
- Jammu & Kashmir (Kishtwar): Cloudburst triggered flash flood along a pilgrimage route on August 14.
- Himachal Pradesh: 45 cloudbursts, 122 landslides, 95 flash floods.
- Gurgaon: Intense September 1 rainfall caused widespread waterlogging and traffic gridlock.
- Punjab: Early September flooding affected all districts; 30+ deaths, 3+ lakh affected; 148,000+ hectares agricultural land submerged.
- Manipur: Mid-September flooding with river embankment breaches.
- Kolkata: September 23 intense rainfall caused 10 deaths, 30 injuries.
- Marathwada: Heaviest rainfall in 50+ years (September 23) caused severe flooding, agricultural losses, infrastructure damage.
Why should you care?
- Such widespread simultaneous flooding across the country signals alarm. This is not one bad monsoon in one region — it's a pattern across India.
- The causes are a combination of unusually intense rainfall and poor planning — excessive concretization, unaccounted natural flows, green cover removal, and construction in ecologically sensitive zones.
- With climate change intensifying extreme rainfall and urbanization increasing, such incidents will become more frequent. Building community and infrastructure resilience is critical.