GUWAHATI: The Northeastern part of the country accounts for 30% of the deaths due to lightning in India in 2018, reports Lightning Resilient India Campaign (LRIC).
According to LRIC, last year the country recorded 3000 casualties due to lightning, of which nearly one-third belong to the Northeast.
The report also stated that lightning strikes kill more people than any other disaster in the Northeast.
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Owing to the high vulnerability of the region to lightning, thunderstorms and cloudbursts, all the eight states in the Northeast should help create a lightning resilient society, said LRIC.
As part of its campaign to create a lightning resilient society in the NE region, LRIC on Saturday, June 22 organised a stakeholder meeting at North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC) in Shillong.
LRIC convener Sanjay Srivastava was quoted by Times of India as saying, “We aim to reduce lightning deaths by 80% in the next 3 years.”
He further added that the Northeast alone accounts for 100 deaths out of 487 deaths between April 1 to June 14 this year.