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India is a land of Monsoon. It means we receive the large part of rain during a specific season which is called monsoon. Monsoon is brought by a complex whether pattern. Without monsoon India and neighbouring countries would have been a dry land.
This year India received lots of rain. It was so much that the state of Punjab inundated with flood. It caused loss of people, livestock and properties. There had been cases of cloudburst, landslides and flash flood in Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal, Uttarakhand and other states. It happened for the first time that monsoon crossed Himalayas and reached Tibet which is a dry plateau. Why is this happening? Is this a normal climate phenomena caused by climate cycles or is this a result of global warming?
I think both the things are responsible for it. Heavy rainfall is a cyclic process while human intervention, cutting of trees, construction work on riverbeds and lots of human activities in the Himalayan region are making things worse. This is a tough time but this is also a time to think about our own activities. We can't destroy natural resources in the name of development.
Thanks!
