Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The January 2001 earthquake that struck the state of Gujarat in India damaged or destroyed some 8,000 villages and 490 towns. In the months and years after the earthquake, many organizations undertook widespread reconstruction programmes. One such collaboration between the NGO CARE India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of …
An exercise to evaluate the short to medium term effects of the foreign-funded Citizen Disaster Compensation Programme has been launched in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts affected by 2010 floods, according to officials. The evaluation is meant to examine the positive and negative impacts of the cash grants programme, which, …
The Tamil Nadu Government would construct one lakh concrete houses at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore to replace the damaged huts in the cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram, the Governor, Mr K. Rosaiah, said today. The State Government has also presented a memorandum spelling out the …
The US government through its premier development agency, US Agency for International Development, is funding a four-year $40.5 million project to construct 100 primary school/cyclone shelters in the disaster prone areas of Bangladesh. These shelters will provide accommodation for up to 180,000 inhabitants during an emergency and will serve as …
One hundred and forty nine farmer families in the Polonnaruwa District are being helped under a new community project of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to make the transition to better housing after their homes were damaged or destroyed in floods in December 2010. The pharmaceuticals and vaccines company has provided Rs 4.5 …
The West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday sanctioned a grant of Rs 88 crore for the Aila-affected families in Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas. The grant has been provided to rebuild homes that were damaged in the cyclone nearly three years ago. According to the Ms Banerjee, …
UNHCR is working for provision of home facility to more than 45,000 vulnerable families affected by the devastating floods in the country. The UN agency has nearly completed construction on around 30,000 transitional shelters for families who plan to repair or rebuild their homes. Permanent shelters are being built to …
In Avudaiyarkoil and Manamelkudi PU limits Apoorva, Project Director, Tsunami Project Implementation Unit, directed the officials to complete projects on the construction of houses for the tsunami victims now in progress in Avudaiyarkoil and Manamelkudi panchayat union limits as per schedule. Housing projects are under execution under the Emergency Tsunami …
The Belleplaine test site, located in the island of Guadeloupe (French Lesser Antilles), includes a three-accelerometer vertical array, designed for liquefaction studies. The seismic response of the soil column at the test site is computed using three methods: the spectral ratio method using the vertical array data, a numerical method …
Although two years have passed since the devastating cyclone Aila hit in the coastal regions, approximately 54,530 people from 10,906 households continue to love in makeshift huts on the embankment damaged by the cyclone, and outside the ring embankment. Cyclone Aila hit the coastal area May 25, 2009. Over two …
Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.300-quake-engineer-earthquakes-dont-kill-buildings-do.html
The Governing Council of Bangladesh Climate Resilience Fund has approved a $25 million project, the first from the Fund, for strengthening capability to face adverse impacts of climate change. The state minister for environment and forests, Hasan Mahmud, disclosed this after the first meeting of BCCRF Governing Council at a …
In the tornado-torn rural stretches and cities of the South, the scope and size of a newly homeless population are beginning to sink in. Shirley Baker, 54, lost her Tuscaloosa apartment in the storms and has moved in with her mother, but no one wants the situation to be long-term. …
Taking part in relief and rehabilitation work in flood-hit areas, FACES Pakistan - a non-profit and non-governmental organisation - has handed over 10 modern houses to affected families in tehsil Kandhkot of district Kashmor, officials of the organisation announced here on Sunday. During a briefing at the FACES head office …
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said the nearly 60,000 houses taken up under the ''Aasare'' scheme for the 2009 flood victims would be handed over to the beneficiaries by May this year. Yeddyurappa said 70 per cent of the 59,212 houses, each on 30 ft by 50 ft …
The World Bank has offered to Kosi flood relief beneficiaries an incentive that is expected to put the reconstruction process on fast track: rebuild your houses in six months and get toilets and solar lights worth Rs 7,300 free of cost. The offer stands for 1,00,00 beneficiaries under the $259 …
On the anniversary of Haiti's devastating quake, Nicholas Ambraseys and Roger Bilham calculate that 83% of all deaths from building collapse in earthquakes over the past 30 years occurred in countries that are anomalously corrupt.
RAVAGED by flash floods in August, Leh is in dire need of homes for the victims. But rehabilitation work is far from over because of shortage of labour. Victims of floods that followed the biggest cloudburst ever in Ladakh, are living in tents or unfinished houses. Padma Chodol’s house has …
Leh: They call it, Jhakzang, an auspicious day for moving into a new house. And across Solar camp, the biggest rehabilitation colony in Leh, men and women are carrying mattresses, mats and bags from canvas tents to their new homes. They
