Strategies and Recommendations to Reduce Impact of Flood for Shirte Village

India is highly vulnerable to floods and out of the total geographical area of 329 million hectares, more than 40 million hectare is flood prone. Floods are recurrent phenomenon, which cause huge loss of lives and damage to livelihood system, property, infrastructure and public utilities. It is a cause for concern that the flood related damages are showing an increasing trend. This can be attributed to many reasons including rapid increase in population and urbanization coupled with growing developmental and economic activities in the flood plains and global warming. In this paper, the main objective was to study the causes of floods in krishna river, study the overall impacts, socio-economic impacts and to formulate a strategy and find a solution to reduce the impact of flood in shirte village. It was observed that, in this village more than 491 farmers had directly affected by the flood. They had loosed the crops of worth 50 lakh rupees, flood disaster terribly affected on transportation facilities, shops and kiosks, milk production, basic facilities of the village, livestock of the village, houses and households. Also flood has shown increase in the fertility of the land, increase in the ground water level and mitigation of the problem of saltation.