An HT analysis shows that this will inflict a far bigger cost on lives and livelihoods than cyclonic activity on India’s eastern coast. States on the western coast contributed 46% of India’s manufacturing GVA in 2018-19, while east coast states contributed 22%. Western coastline districts among these 100 accounted for 27.4% of India’s total manufacturing output, while eastern coastline districts accounted for 10%. This means that the western coast has more pockets of high population density than the eastern coast. Also read: 3 jumbo Covid centres shut before Cyclone Tauktae to reopen for patients from June 1This means that the western coast has more pockets of high population density than the eastern coast.

Source: Hindustan Times May 28, 2021 00:11 UTC