Showing posts with label NDRF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NDRF. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
STH activities in Kalimpong
STH was extremely glad to work alongside them as a local coordinator and took advantage of the NDRF visit to talk about cyclones and Cyclone MAHASEN in particular as it roars through the Bay of Bengal.
Several thousand school children and citizens of Kalimpong would be more aware about disasters, cyclones and the NDRF by the end of the week.
Praful Rao,
Kalimpong
Sunday, March 31, 2013
The first landslide report of 2013 ie (01/2013)
Even as Sikkim Express reported training being conducted in Disaster Management in North Sikkim (see above), the Telegraph of 30 Mar2013, reported the first landslides in this region for the year 2013, luckily there were no fatalities.
An excerpt of the report from the Telegraph of 30Mar2013 is placed below :-"Landslides
Siliguri, March 29:
Two rain-triggered landslides in Sikkim’s North district today stranded
300-350 tourists going from Gangtok to Lachen and Lachung, both over
90km from the state’s capital.
There are no
reports of deaths. The subsidence happened between 6pm and 6.30pm,
according to Border Roads Organisation (BRO) sources. The roads from
Chungthang to Lachen and Lachung both got blocked.
There are reports
of tourists stuck on both sides. The BRO sources said no road repair
work could be started in the evening as the rain has continued unabated."
It is well known that we live in an area where the landslide fatalities are the highest in the world and that the Geological Survey of India has categorized us in the most landslide prone zones in the country (see below).
Praful Rao,
Kalimpong
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