2015 South India floods

2015 South India floods
Submerged bridges in Chennai
Date8 November 2015 – 14 December 2015 (2015-12-14)
LocationSouth India (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh)
Deaths500+[1][2][3][4][5]
Tamil Nadu: 422 (official, likely more)[1][2][3][4][6]
Andhra Pradesh: 81[5]
Puducherry: 3
Property damage₹199 billion (US$2 billion) – over ₹1,000 billion (US$12 billion) (unofficial estimates)[7][8]
Tamil Nadu: ₹14,602 crore-₹50,000+ crore (US$2.2 billion-US$7.5+ billion, unofficial estimates)[7][9]
Andhra Pradesh: ₹4,960 crore (US$594 million)[10]
Pondicherry: ₹333 crore (US$40 million)[8][11]

The 2015 South India floods resulted from heavy rainfall generated by the annual northeast monsoon in November–December 2015. They affected the Coromandel Coast region of the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.[12] More than 500 people were killed[1][2][3][4][5] and over 1.8 million (18 lakh) people were displaced.[13] With estimates of damages and losses ranging from nearly ₹200 billion (US$2 billion) to over ₹1 trillion (US$12 billion),[7][8][14][15][16][17] the floods were the costliest to have occurred in 2015, and were among the costliest natural disasters of the year.[18]

Though the unusually heavy rainfall in southern India during the winter of 2015 has been attributed to the 2014–16 El Niño event, in July 2018 the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) categorised the flooding across Tamil Nadu as a "man-made disaster", and held the Government of Tamil Nadu responsible for the scale of the catastrophe, which the latter had termed a natural disaster.[19]

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  3. ^ a b c "347 dead in rain-related incidents since Oct 1 in TN". The Hindu. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Janardhanan, Arun (10 December 2015). "Now Chennai struggles to lay its dead to rest". The Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
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  6. ^ "Rains, Floods kills 269 in Tamil Nadu, 54 in Andhra Pradesh". The New Indian Express. 3 December 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
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  8. ^ a b c "Chennai Floods in November Washed Away Over Rs. 14,000 Crore". The New Indian Express. 31 March 2016. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016.
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  18. ^ Narasimhan, T.E. (11 December 2015). "Chennai floods are world's 8th most expensive natural disaster in 2015". Business Standard. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  19. ^ Kumar, B. Aravind (10 July 2018). "CAG terms 2015 Chennai floods a man-made disaster, holds T.N. govt. responsible for the catastrophe". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 15 July 2018.