• Raghu Teja Vemana

Urbanization and climate change are possessing numerous challenges. With an ever-growing population of around 10.6 million inhabitants (1.06 crore). From the year 1990 to 2000, City of hyderabad developed from 170 sq. km to 650 sq.km to accommodate the increasing population due to Industrial IT Industry and pharma sector. The current metro area population in 2022 has an increase of 2.58 percent from 2021. This paper attempts to describe the Musi River floods from 1908 to present, impact of climate change and also focuses on interplay between Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) a governing body controlling land use zoning and developmental growth indulged in flood related risks and offers recommendations to deal with urban flooding. The potential risks of flooding of Musi River due to rain and upstream of city are evaluated and contextualized with the perspective of climate change and human interventions with environmental change and the loss of water due thrust on land and infrastructure flooding during monsoon indulging in human property loss. Geographical Information system tool is used to calibrate the Land use and Land classification changes, delineation of flood vulnerable zones by analytical hierarchy process and comparative analysis of flood affected zones of GHMC in the 2000 and 2020 are analyzed to propose preventive solutions to urban floods, using multiple approaches to deal with urban development for conservation of water bodies and Musi River.

Vulnerability, Urban Floods, Urban Planning, Flood Mitigation

"Mapping flood vulnerable areas and mitigation measures in case of Hyderabad city. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no.a28-a33, December-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212005.pdf

"Mapping flood vulnerable areas and mitigation measures in case of Hyderabad city. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 12, page no. ppa28-a33, December-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2212005.pdf