The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
Chikungunya fever struck the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in July 2006. The authors did a prospective observational feasibility study in one peri-urban locality (Brookshabad) to assess the Aedes spp. infestation and subsequently test the efficacy of a community-based approach to control Aedes aegypti.
It is bad economic policy to rely too much on tourism! Many stakeholders and sections of the Andaman & Nicobar administration hope that tourism will become the pillar of the islands
The 2004 tsunami has created havoc and excessive devastation in terms of human lives and loss of infrastructure in coastal areas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and rendered the soil and water resources salt-affected. In order to assess the changes in the relevant soil characteristics, viz. pH, electrical conductivity, sodium …
This Master Plan is aimed to develop Port Blair and its environs progressively into self sustaining community, with socio-economic development and enhancement in quality life keeping in view of its ecologically fragile environment. The main objectives of the plan are: Regulating new physical entities and activities in an orderly manner; …
This Master Plan is aimed to develop Port Blair and its environs progressively into self sustaining community, with socio-economic development and enhancement in quality life keeping in view of its ecologically fragile environment. The main objectives of the plan are: Regulating new physical entities and activities in an orderly manner; …
The main objective of this policy by A & N government is to reduce dependence on conventional sources of power generation especially HSD oil,protect the environment,generate employment and encourage entrepreneurial investment in NRSE. These guidelines will be known as
The broad objective of this study is to examine various issues related to irrigation potential creation, its utilization, gross and net irrigated areas, including definition, reporting practices and consistencies in estimates. More specifically, the objectives are: to identify the gap between irrigation potential created and utilized from the point of …
This report captures a number of the good practices that emerged during the UN tsunami response in South India. The document represents part of the efforts to build and develop the UN
Andaman & Nicobar Islands is the largest archipelago system consisting of over 200 islands, over 300 inlets and constitute one of the hotspot of biodiversity. 3,552 plant species are known from these islands. As regards bamboos not much work has been done because most of the areas are unexplored.
Scientists begin work on vaccine in Port Blair scientists at the Regional Medical Research Centre (rmrc) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are all set to begin work on developing a vaccine against Chikungunya, a viral infection that killed over 80 people in India in 2006.
though not in the near future, the Jarawa tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar islands may be in for some respite. Officials are planning to stop use of the first stretch of the Andaman Trunk Road (atr) that connects south Andaman with the north and middle Andaman islands while passing …
the Great Andamanese tribe speaks a language that no one else in the world does. A study suggests it could be among the few paleolithic languages that exist in the world and may constitute the sixth language family in India. Anvita Abbi, professor at the School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru …
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a popular tourist destination in India. This has meant a slew of proposals to expand and intensify tourism, huge investment in infrastructure, improved connectivity and relaxation on Leave Travel Concession (LTC) for domestic tourists. However, these plans are not based on how tourism impacts …
On April 11, the union cabinet gave the go-ahead to conservation authorities to sign an mou with international counterparts to protect the dugong and its habitat. Indian efforts to conserve this virtually-unknown sea creature will get international recognition as a result. But this initiative has probably come too late. The …
the Andaman and Nicobar administration has prepared a proposal to resettle people living on encroached public land since 1978. The plan, which awaits the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest's clearance, has already sparked off a row. Local ngos say it will encourage the encroachers. Official estimates show that there …
A cow for Rs 89,000, a pig for Rs 12,000 and a goat, Rs 19,000. These are not fictional prices dreamt up by some livestock dealer. These are the prices businessmen have quoted for supplying livestock to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Thunderstruck, the union territory administration has dropped its cattle-for-cattle …
Butterflies in the Andaman archipelago have been facing colonisation. The carrier of the colonists was the 2004 tsunami which brought three foreign species of butterflies to the islands, threatening its fragile ecology. Of the three species, two, Danias melanipus camorta and Anitilope anomala, are endemic subspecies from the Nicobar group …
