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प्रश्न
What type of difficulties are faced by people during floods?
Look at the picture, what kind of a school have the children come to after the flood? Write down what people had to do to make their life normal again after the flood.
उत्तर
The following difficulties are faced by people during floods:
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Many people die.
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Many people get injured.
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Their houses and other valuables get destroyed.
- Their farms are destroyed.
- A lot of food items are destroyed.
- There is a scarcity of drinking water.
- Water-borne diseases are spread.
- The roadways and railways get, affected badly.
- Schools, hospitals, and other important public places get destructed.
It has been shown in the picture that after the floods, since the schools of the children have been destroyed, as a result of the, they have to study in a park or under a tree.
- People have to start from scratch to make their life normal.
- Cleaning the house and submerged goods is the first measure task after the flood water recedes.
- Many people may have to start an altogether new occupation to earn money.
- People have to rebuild their houses.
- They have to arrange for safer drinking water.
- The government has restored the rail and road network as quickly as possible.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you or anyone that you know ever faced such difficulty?
A lot of people from other places came to Jasma’s village. Who were these people? In what ways would they have helped the villagers?
Compare your house with that of Jasma. List in your notebook what materials were used in making both the houses.
| Jasma’s House | Your House |
Why do you think one should go under a table during an earthquake?
In such situations whose help would be needed and for what? Write in your notebook as shown here.
| Whose help will be needed | How will they help |
| Dog | To smell out where people are lying trapped |
Why do people live together in a neighbourhood?
Imagine living in a place where there were no other houses or people around. How would it be? For example, whom would you play with? To whom would you celebrate festivals and special days? Would you be scared?
Make your own report which mentions the following:
– Cause of the disaster, date, and time
– What kind of damage did it cause-to lives, belongings, livelihoods?
– Which people came forward to help? Which government offices or other groups?
Write a report with the help of the following words:
floods, river water, injured people, food packets, rescue work, camps, dead bodies, dead animals floating in the water, houses underwater, aerial survey (to see the scene of the disaster from a plane), sad people, diseases spread by dirty water, homeless people, trapped people.
What will you do to save pet animals during a natural disaster?
