The Department of Meteorology of India warned that both average temperatures and heat waves are expected to increase in all climatic scenarios. | Photo credit: file photo
Telangana has followed the steps of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, to recognize the official heat waves as a “specific disaster of the state” and raised the ex-gray amount for the families of the victims to ₹ 4 Lakh. The measure is produced following the warning of the Indian weather department that both the average temperatures and the frequency of heat waves are expected to increase in all climatic scenarios.
The special chief secretary, Arvind Kumar, who issued the order of the government, explaining the steps in the case of Heatwave, said the measure was promoted by two key concerns. “Without the heat state that declared a disaster, many deaths were not counted, which led to a little report. Secondly, affected families were obtaining a scarce ₹ 50000 bass AapatbandhuHey added.
With rapid industrialization, Telangana has witnessed a constant increase in the number of high temperature days. Between 2014 and 2023, Jagtial registered 98 days of heat wave, followed by Pedapalli and Manchserial with 91 each, Karimnagar with 77 and Adilabad with 71.
The IMD classifies one day of the heat wave as one in which the temperature reaches at least 40 ° C with a deviation of 5–6 ° C of normal, or persistently remains in a subset 45 ° C.
“We have also prepared a specific heat action plan for the first time this year for all districts and that will be more as a prevention measure, while this is to ensure that deaths because of the heat wave are taken into account and families do not suffer”, “Kumar.
A 2024 study of the link between heat waves and the mortality of multiple Indian cities concluded that “we still observe a greater risk of mortality by using a definition of 1 -day heat waves as a proxy for IMD patterns, which highlights the importance of even a single extreme heat day as a public health concern with relevant political implications.”
Between 2000 and 2020, there were 20,615 deaths due to a stroke of heat, coordination to the data of the National Crime Records Office (NCRB). There were 730 deaths in 2022 for which NCRB data is available. In 2021 (in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemia), there were 374 deaths due to stroke. According to IMD data, 459 people died on the heat wave 2024.
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2024 was the hottest year recorded, according to the IMD, with a temperature of +0.65 ° C above the long-term average (period 1991-2020). “This marked the warmest year since the national records begged in 1901, which emerged the highest previous temperature observed in 2016, which had anomaly or +0.54 ° C,” says the IMD. This information has been cited as a reason for the action plan for the state government.
Published – April 16, 2025 12:36 am isth
