-Economic and Political Weekly Chennai floods show the vulnerabilities that arise from the neglect of urban planning. In the second week of November, flood-marooned people in Chennai had an unlikely Good Samaritan. The cab service provider, Ola. As the city struggled to come to terms with its highest rainfall in 10 years, the cab company pressed in boats from an aquatic adventure outfit and secured the services of professional rowers and fishworkers...
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Scale of 2013 Uttarakhand disaster could have been lessened, says CAG report
As Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh fight the fury of flood caused by annual northeast monsoon, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the natural disaster in Uttarakhand, which took place in June 2013, has been made available in the public domain recently. The CAG report discloses how various development activities in the state flouted guidelines issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Expert Committee on glaciers...
More »Uttarakhand government's slow response aggravated Kedar disaster, says CAG report -Gaurav Talwar
-The Times of India DEHRADUN: A performance audit report prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the 2013 Kedarnath flash floods, which was tabled in the Uttarakhand assembly session at Gairsain on Tuesday, squarely blames the state government of the time for being unprepared and failing to learn from previous natural disasters. The report raps the state government for its slow response which it says actually aggravated the disaster...
More »Drought hits Gujarat every 3 years: Report -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: Gujarat is prone to drought once in three years while states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka tend to have two years of drought in a period of five years. This is one of the conclusions of the central government's report, 'Drought, Crisis Management Plan-2015' which also says that around 16% of the country and 68% of the sowing area nationally is drought prone. In the...
More »Over 60,000 hit by first wave of Assam floods
-The Times of India GUWAHATI: With the onset of monsoon in the northeast, Assam has been hit by the first wave of floods affecting over 60,000 people in nine districts of the state. At least one person has been washed away in the fresh wave of deluge. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority on Monday said the Brahmaputra and the Jia Bharali were flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat...
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