Congress mp Shashi Tharoor claims that remote sensing alone is insufficient to predict landslides. On Tuesday, landslides occurred in kerala, the MP's home state, leaving at least 167 people dead. "The fundamental reality is that kerala is extremely fragile ecologically, which makes landslides very difficult to predict." We have faced several significant difficulties in the last few years alone, one of which being climate change. The difficulty is in anticipating them so that individuals can be evacuated prior to the worst happening, Tharoor, the lok sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram, kerala, said NDTV.

We mostly rely on remote sensing, but specialists believe that in order to predict landslides, we also need sensor grids installed on the property. We don't have an on-ground sensor grid, therefore we don't have it. We must collect more data in real time," he continued. amit shah, the Union home minister, claimed that the state had been warned beforehand, which sparked a verbal spat with kerala Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday.
 
In response to the altercation, Tharoor stated that politics should be kept aside from humanitarian matters like this. "When lives are on the line and people need to be rescued, I don't think we should be playing the blame game. The predicted amount of rain for the wayanad landslide-affected districts was 62 mm, but 322 mm fell instead."So, what do you do when it rains so much?" enquired the Congressman.
 
 
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G GOWTHAM

01/08/2024 08:31 AM