NEW DELHI: Kerala’s worst floods in close to a century left hundreds of people dead, displaced over a million, and caused unprecedented loss of property worth billions of rupees in less than a fortnight. Though excessive rains filled the dams, experts blamed poor water flow management from the reservoirs for the inundation of the coastal state and many parts of the southern India. It is not for the first time that this has happened.

However the Central Water Commission (CWC) has said that there have been no lapses by the government in controlling dams. They clarified that the floods resulted from heavy rain.