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Disaster Management Guidelines Overlooked in Uttarakhand

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Most of disaster management guidelines overlooked in Uttarakhand; several other states inept as well: ASSOCHAM review, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Expressing a deep sense of anguish over misery and devastation caused by flash floods in Uttarakhand, ASSOCHAM today said none of the key guidelines by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on flood control and … Read more

When Expedience Trumps Expertisem by Ramachandra Guha

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Uttarakhand reiterates that our rulers have contemptuous disregard for the advice of the best scientists and would rather listen to contractors and builders to whom they are beholden for funds In the early 1980s, while doing research on the environmental history of Uttarakhand, I sometimes visited the library of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology … Read more