The Prime Minister held a meeting with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Governor P. Sathasivam and Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons and other officials in Kochi. After this, they did an aerial survey of flood-affected areas. Congress President Rahul Gandhi has demanded that the flood of Kerala be declared a "national calamity". He said that the lives, livelihoods and future of our millions are at stake.

Kerala is struggling with the deadly floods after 100 years. The number of people killed in rains and floods in the state has increased. Apart from the NDRF, all three forces of the Army are engaged in relief work. Aeroplanes are stranded on rooftops, which have been cut off from the world due to landslides. Thousands of people are still sitting on tall buildings and are waiting to be saved. More than 50,000 people are stranded in Ernakulam and Thrissur camps alone.

The tourism sector of the state of Kerala has been devastated, thousands of hectares of the crop has sunk in the water, there has been heavy injuries on the infrastructure. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday (August 17th). On Saturday morning, he was rushed to Kochi to conduct flood surveys in the flood affected areas, but due to bad weather, the Prime Minister's plane could not fly.

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