 "Kerala floods")
The Union Home Ministry has declared the floods and landslides in Kerala during this monsoon season as a "calamity of a severe nature". As of Sunday, close to 370 lives have been lost owing to the heavy rains, landslides and related floods in the state, according to agency reports.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday told agencies that over one million people were currently sheltered in 3,274 relief camps.
An official document from the Disaster Management Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs said, "Keeping in view of the intensity and magnitude of the floods and
