Key Details of the Declaration

• Purpose: This declaration allows the government to provide immediate relief to those affected by extreme heat, especially during the severe temperatures of April and May 2024.
• Funding: Relief efforts will be supported by the State Disaster Response Fund.
• Other State-specific disasters in TN: Sea erosion, lightning, thunder, whirlwinds, and gale winds as State-specific disasters to ensure relief assistance for those impacted by these events.

Note: 

• Kerala in March this year, declared man-animal conflict as a state-specific disaster, becoming the first state in the country to do so.
• Once an issue is declared a state-specific disaster, the onus to deal with it shifts to the state disaster management authority, which, powered by the Disaster Management Act, can take quicker and more decisive action.
• Also, district collectors can directly intervene in their capacity as the chairman of the district disaster body.

• Plains: The maximum temperature is at least 45°C
• Hills: The maximum temperature is at least 30°C
• Coastal regions: The maximum temperature is at least 37°C and the departure from normal is at least 4.5°C

PYQ:

[2013] Bring out the causes for the formation of heat islands in the urban habitat of the world.

[2013] The annual range of temperature in the interior of the continents is high as compared to coastal areas. What is / are the reason / reasons?

1. Thermal difference between land and water

2. Variation in altitude between continents and oceans

3. Presence of strong winds in the interior

4. Heavy rains in the interior as compared to coasts

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) 1 only

(b) 1 and 2 only

(c) 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4