A farmer sitting near a tank holding an umbrella to escape with summer heat in the village of Dhanur, Medak district, Telangana. File | Photo credit: Mohd Arif
The Telangana Government has declared thermal waves, substrokes and solar burns as a “specific disaster.” The financial relief supplier has also improved to the families of heat wave victims ₹ 4 Lakh per deceased person.
A government order (GO) that declares this was issued by the Special Chief Secretary (Disaster Management) Arvind Kumar on Tuesday (April 15, 2025). Until now, only ₹ 50,000 were sacrificed to families under the Apathbandhu scheme. The GO declared that the improved financial relief would be to provide the disaster response status (SDRF).
A farmer goes to his field in the midst of the heat of Pochampally Village, 60 km from Hyderabad on May 30, 2018. Archive | Photo credit: Nagara Gopal
Telangana experienced at least 15 days of heat wave in 2024
“Manager, Peddapalli and Jagtial report about 30 days.
Workers dedicated to lifting cement bags. File | Photo credit: Nagara Gopal
While the districts had already initiated mitigation efforts, such as distributing ORS packages and establishing drinking water kiosks, the absence of formal notification prevented the provision of adequate financial support.
The order indicates that heat waves have remained a large extent danger due to the challenges in measurement and valuation. Unlike natural calamities, such as floods or earthquakes that cause visible damage to infrastructure, the effects of heat waves are mostly internal, affect human health and lead to the inferior mortality reported, Cheperly, vulederable, vulederable, vulederable, vulnerable farmers and daily salary workers, especially those of the construction sector.
The deaths will be considered eligible only if they comply with the criteria of the IMD, which defines a heat wave as a temperature of at least 40 ° C with a deviation of 5 to 6 ° C of the normal temperature, or a persistent temperature above 45 ° C. In addition, in cases where the registered farmer, a farmer of Rythu, the Rythu families, can choose to claim the highest of the two years, Rytu families, Rytu’s families, can choose to claim the highest of the two avirables. Bima insurance or sdrf relief, order.
To guarantee transparency and responsibility, the new standards describe a diagnostic and clear verification process for deaths related to the thermal wave. This includes the certification of medical officers, mandal income officers and police officers, together with the maintenance of detailed records at the district level.
Published – April 15, 2025 01:10 PM IST
