We need an urban climate emergency fund

B2025 Muson Marooned residents, damaged roads, forced the business to close and forced the electricity supply for days. This year’s Tufan is another reminder of how rainfall models have changed in TaLangana. In the 20th century, the average monsoon rain for Haydarabad was 76.88 cm, but in the last 25 years the city recorded an average of 91.84 cm. While scientists discuss the extent to which this change can be attributed to climate change, why for citizens are less pressure than the result.

The basements of the high -rise apartments in Haydarabad were flooded and the cars were sweeping. And as always, the poor, especially those who lived along the Musi River and lake beds were most impressed. They lost rations, household appliances, documents and tools. For families in areas such as Moosa Nagar, Chaderghat and Kishanbagh, the flood on the edge of the river means a lost school year for children, the increasing cases of water -based diseases and the struggle to rebuild their lives without an insurance security network.

Haydarabad’s fragility, the intentional ignorance of the natural gradients and basins of the city is the systematic abandonment of decades of civil corruption and zoning arrangements. The city systematically dismantled the natural flood water flow models, which shrunk lakes and raped the rain water drainage. Changing rainfall models aggravate the problem.

The establishment of the State Government in 2024, the establishment of Haydarabad Disaster Management and Asset Protection Agency was a step in dealing with the crisis. The agency is trying to clean the lake bed rape and rejuvenate water bodies. Bathukamma, which offers a light of hope, restored Kunta Lake. However, these interventions cannot reclaim the damage caused by decades. For example, the main office of Haydarabad Metropolitan Development Authority was built on what was one of the four lakes in the Ameerpet region in the 1970s.

Climate change makes cities vulnerable. Is it trying to make India cities flexible? On July 24, 2025, Deputy ROOKUMARI CHUoudhary asked at Lok Sabha: mı Will the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA) be pleased to indicate the way the government to include climate elasticity in the development of urban planning and infrastructure in order to address the repetitive issues such as water raid, irrigation and damage? ”

On the other hand, Mohua State Minister Tokhan Sahu said that urban affairs entered the opinion of state governments and urban local organs. The only financial commitment made by the center in this year’s budget is La 1 Lakh Crore urban difficulty fund, which aims to implement offers for ‘cities as growth center’, ‘creative redevelopment of cities’ and ‘water and sanitation’. “This fund finances 25% of the cost of bank projects on a condition that at least 50% of the cost is financed from bonds, bank loans and public private partnerships,” he said.

What Hayderabad and other urban areas need is a special climate Emergency Fund. Cities should be able to benefit from such a fund for both short -term reconstruction and long -term adaptation. Extraordinary situation recovery cannot be dependent on temporary grants or delayed aid measures. If excessive events will be new, funding mechanisms must reflect this fact.

Creating durability is an important challenge, and the MUSİ Riverfront Development Plan of the TaLangana Government embodies this effort. The plan is compatible with the 2021 ‘River Center Urban Planning Guidelines’ certificate, which takes into account Mohua’s climate change and proposes the creation of active and passive entertainment areas and the implementation of eco -sensitive zoning arrangements. The cost of the project is estimated La 1 Lakh Crore. However, it was difficult to secure your financing. Without significant commitment from the center, projects such as this risk become cosmetic.

Indian cities are the engines of economic growth: they host one third of the country’s population and provide most of the informal industry. But without climate flexibility, these engines will stop. The story of the flooded streets of Haydarabad is not only about weak drainage, but also a development model that requires urgent funds to tide the emergency of the next climate emergency.