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What Was It like to Work in Flood-Hit Kerala? IAS Officer Shares First-Hand Account!

What Was It like to Work in Flood-Hit Kerala? IAS Officer Shares First-Hand Account!

Working round-the-clock with IPS officers, Harikishore successfully accomplished this seemingly impossible mission. Here is the entire account of the IAS officer, as shared on Facebook.

What would it be like, being in Kerala right now, working in flooded areas, relief camps or rescuing people? How bad was the situation in various districts when logistical or natural obstacles made it worse? And what kept the people going even as the situation went from bad to catastrophic?

These are some of the questions that ran in my mind every time I read a new news piece about the situation, and I finally found my answers in a personal account published by S Harikishore, a senior IAS officer.

Harikishore was asked to assist the District Collector of Pathanamthitta in a disaster relief operation.

Initially predicted to go on for only 2-3 days, the operation turned out to be a week-long mission of planning, coordination, execution and a continuous answering of thousands of calls.

Source: Twitter/JANA V RAMAKRISHNA.

“How can you stop taking calls when some of the calls were like ‘My parents are in the first floor and water is reaching their neck, and I am losing all hope,'” writes the officer.

Working round-the-clock with IPS officers, Harikishore successfully accomplished this seemingly impossible mission. Here is the entire account of the IAS officer, as shared on social media.


GiveIndia and The Better India have come together to help Rebuild Kerala by supporting 41,000 affected families. You too can be a part of this movement and help us raise funds for the NGOs working to rehabilitate these families. If all of us come together with a small monthly contribution, we can make a real and meaningful difference in helping restore normalcy to those who need our help the most.

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You can the original post by S Harikishore here.

(Edited by Gayatri Mishra)

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