Economic effects of flood construction damage in 2019 Charikar city

Abstract

Afghanistan is a mountainous country, and on the other hand, a lack of basic infrastructure has always caused minor and major floods. Now, with the occurrence of a historic large flood in Charikar city of Parwan province, unfortunately, despite the loss of life, it has also left huge financial losses, and most of the buildings in the flooded areas of this city were completely destroyed. The important issue of the research is to what extent the economy of the residents of flooded areas has suffered due to the destruction of their houses? And in order to measure the amount of financial losses caused by the destruction of buildings and its effects on the economies of the affected families, a questionnaire method was used using the cooperative work model. The designed questionnaire was distributed to the research statistical population, which included 201 samples using the quota sampling method in accordance with the aforementioned model, whose reliability coefficient shows the appropriate and desirable reliability of the questionnaire, which after the analysis of the questionnaire The findings of the research show that there are 201 buildings destroyed in Charikar city, the previous estimated value of which is equal to 865,990,000 Afghanis, and the damage caused to them is estimated to be equal to 205,160,000 Afghanis, which has affected the economy. The families affected by this incident are far more than the mentioned amount, and this is a significant figure given that the economy of the victimized families has suffered due to the destruction of their residential buildings.