Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Technoscience Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X (www.ijsrst.com) doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST218356 306 Overview of Recent Developments in Flood Mitigation Techniques with Respect to Indian Subcontinent P. N. Pusdekar* 1 , Dr. S. V. Dudul 2 * 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, P. R. Pote CoE, Amravati, Maharashtra, India 2 Professor &Head, Department of Applied Electronics, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India Article Info Volume8, Issue 3 Page Number : 306-315 Publication Issue May-June-2021 Article History Accepted : 18 May2021 Published : 24 May2021 ABSTRACT Number of natural calamities like earthquake, cyclone, landslide, pandemics etc are known to have devastating impact on human life but flood hazards are severe and frequent in nature. Every year, floods strike many parts of the world and result in huge loss of life and property. The trends in flood damages have been increasing exponentially mainly due to growing population, investments in flood affected areas and changes in land-use land cover patterns in upstream regions. Climate change is also playing a major role in increased number of flood events so it is also likely that flooding would be more frequent and widespread in future due to the extreme weather events perceived to be induced by changing climate. In addition, the social and environmental changes are further expected to increase the risk and cost of these natural disasters. This paper presents the overview of different factors related directly or indirectly with flood risk assessment, different strategies adopted by Government for mitigation of flood, flood damage statistics, impact on social, economic and infrastructural perspective. Keywords: DEM, vulnerability, runoff, LULC, watershed I. INTRODUCTION There have been multiple devastating floods in different regions of India in the past, of which the Mumbai flood in 2005, Bihar floods in 2007 and 2008, Assam flood in 2012, Uttarakhand flood in 2013, Jammu & Kashmir floods in 2014, Chennai flood in 2015 and, most recently, the Kerala flood in 2018 are identified as the most severe ones [4]. About 75 per cent of the total Indian rainfall is concentrated over a short monsoon season of four months (June- September). As a result, the rivers witness a heavy discharge during these months, leading to widespread floods in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and