The present book provides an account of the impact made by the disasters on the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Detailed analysis about human lives, houses destroyed, houses damaged, damage to crops, cattle lost and damage to roads etc., have been analysed for district and taluk level for the state. The analysis will help to prioritize the district for further disaster risk reduction programmes.

Electric Drives is meant for undergraduate and postgraduate students in electrical, electrical & electronics, power electronics and automation industries courses (B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech./Ph.D.) engineering. This book presents a unique self study material on electrical drives, solid state drives, industrial drives power semiconductor drives.