Kerala Voluntary Youth Action Force to provide The Government through its Rebuild Kerala

essential items to disaster affected persons. Initiative intends to build a green and resilient
The Local Governments have streamlined Kerala. The Rebuild Kerala Development
the planning process by completing the plan Programme (RKDP) envisages a sector based as
formulation process in time. The plan well as cross cutting approach in policy
formulation process for 2019-20 was completed formulation, institutional arrangements, and
by December 2018. This provided more time for prioritised projects for an effective and efficient
implementation of Plan projects. District rebuilding of the State. The sectors covered are
Resource Centres have started to work to Integrated Water Resource Management, Water
improve the quality of Plans. The new set of Supply, Sanitation, Urban, Roads and Bridges,
guidelines introduced in the 13th Plan promotes Transportation, Forestry, Agriculture, Animal
e-tendering in the execution of public works so Husbandry and Dairy Development, Fisheries,
as to ensure transparency in the system. This has Livelihoods and Land.
resulted in substantial increase in tender savings The Government of Kerala is making efforts
to the tune of ₹239.60 crore in 2017-18 and to encourage economic growth and promote
₹212.23 crore in 2018-19. The Government has social and economic development in the State
also initiated efforts to improve the disaster despite the challenges imposed by natural
preparedness in the State and has directed all calamities and resource constraints.
local governments to prepare local disaster
management plans. The Disaster Management
Plans are proposed to be prepared by Local
Governments during January – March 2020
which will be integrated with the Annual Plan
2020-21.
Mission Reconnect 2018 launched by Kerala
State Electricity Board Limited during floods
2018 repaired 16,158 Distribution Transformers,
reconstructed 1735 Distribution Transformer
Stations, restored 25.60 lakh service
connections, reconstructed 5275.80 km
Distribution lines including one lakh damaged
poles, replaced three lakh single phase energy
meters and fifty thousand three phase energy
meter and effected 720 single point connections
damaged in floods in 21 days.
The State experienced two consecutive
floods and landslides in 2018 and 2019. The
State received rainfall of 951.4 mm as against
426.7 mm recording an excess of 123 per cent in
August 2019, due to the influence of low-
pressure area and depression formed over the
Bay of Bengal and strengthening of Monsoon
winds. The devastating flood and landslides in
2019 affected 1,030 villages in the State. It
damaged 1,967 houses fully,19,297 houses
severely and 2.16 lakh houses partially (flood hit
and cleaned), damaged 3,900.17 km of roads, 95
bridges, 91 school buildings, 61 primary health
centres and 283 anganwadis in the State.

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