Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Seeking to cater to areas hit by natural or man-made disasters, the government would soon come out with the first ever mobile hospitals in the country, which can be set up at any calamity stricken region within a short span of six hours. The decision to set up five mobile …
30,000 people affected in Wu Xi city K.V. Prasad WU XI CITY: By the end of this month, some 30,000 people would once again start rebuilding their lives in a permanent structure that promises to withstand an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, a degree more secure than the …
In the recent past, we have witnessed several devastating earthquakes in different parts of the world, including a few developing countries as well as some developed countries. The 7.9 magnitude Sichuan earthquake in Southwest China on 12th May 2008 resulted in more than 5 million people becoming homeless and it …
According to the year 2000 statistics there have been only 21 widows hit this amount has now increased more than ten folds, said Suneeka Perera addressing the journalists in Hambantota district at Chandrika Hotel Tissamaharama. It was organised by the Hambantota branch of CARE International. She said that the ten …
This report identifies ten risk reduction practices which were successfully implemented in the pilot communities and are replicable elsewhere. Its objective is to encourage knowledge and experience sharing among communities, organizations and other disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders for the benefit of all those vulnerable to natural disasters, especially floods. …
Five towers to give prior warning of a tsunami will be installed along the seacoast in the Kalutara district by the Distress Management Unit. These towers will be located at Wadduwa, Katukurunda, Beruwala Abinaramaya Temple, and Maggona St. Mary
The objective of this review commissioned by UNISDR as a follow up to the 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR (AMCDRR) is to develop a common action plan that would facilitate such partnerships based on an evaluation of PPP case studies and consultations with stakeholders. The expected outputs include: a …
This latest ADB publication provides an overview of poverty- environment interactions that show how poor communities in Asia and the Pacific have sought to break out of poverty through local actions that improved their environment. In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and …
Four years after the tsunami, the people of Poompuhar lead a well-settled life. You can see resettled villages of fishing and farming communities with neat rows of houses. There are well laid out roads flanked by neon street lights. The transformation of 10 villages in this panchayat is the handiwork …
When the tsunami struck the coast of Tamil Nadu four years ago, the village of Poompuhar in Sirkali taluk of Nagapattinam district as one of the worst affected. When the waves withdrew, more than death stalked the coastline. With livelihoods and homes gone, Nagapattinam was a land of the living …
This case study is part of the ODI HPG research programme on the role of the affected state in humanitarian action and aims to describe the essential elements of approach to disaster management as seen in its response to the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It …
Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters in a typical year. This report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people. The predicted scale of humanitarian need by 2015 could completely overwhelm …
Spread over 11 states and comprising 23 sub-basins, the Ganga basin accounts for 50 per cent of the total 40 million hectares of the flood-prone land in the country. This was stated by AK Bajaj, member (project), Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC), while chairing the 40th meeting of the commission …
Chairman and Managing Director of the Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), T K Lahiry said tragedy can strike any time in Jharia, so tough actions are needed to shift people Why are people not shifting after so many sops and facilities? The issue of relocation has become highly politicized. We …
Alok Kumar Gupta Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires. But the government has no sound strategy for their rehabilitation and the people have no trust in the government Kujama village in Jharkhand
Only committees for fighting fire 1922: First committee set up under the coal ministry to check the Jharia fire and prevent subsidence. No action taken on its report. 1964: Director of CMRI appointed to carry out a survey and suggest measures to save coal that had caught fire. 1976: The …
It is doubtful the master plan will see the light of the day The relocation plan would have made more sense if it was done soon after a committee set up by the energy ministry in 1976 found underground fire active in the Jharia coalfield. Then, bccl did not even …
TIRUCHI: The Forest Department has incorporated additional requirements in the comprehensive master plan chalked out for the proposed zoological park at M. R. Palayam Reserve Forest, a few km from the city. The department has included in the master plan, which has been forwarded to the State government, a disaster …
