Monday 13 February 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
Uttarakhand to shift 100 disaster prone villages

These villages are almost ‘sitting ducks’ for tragedies in view of their susceptible position under rick projections

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government has drawn a plan to rehabilitate around 100 villages of the state in view of the natural calamities, landslides and seismic activity.

Uttarakhand is a mountainous state and witnesses widespread natural disasters and calamities every year, mainly during the rainy season on account of landslides, cloudburst, falling of rocks and flooding of rivers and water sources.

More villages would be shifted in the next phase. The state government has also sought central help for carrying out this exercise.

These villages are almost ‘sitting ducks’ for tragedies in view of their susceptible position under rick projections.

The government has conducted a survey throughout the state through experts and technical specialist and drawn the list of villages that need immediate shifting.

The move has been prompted by the recent tragedy in which a school collapsed in Kapkot in Bageshwar killing 18 students. Around 69 people have lost their lives since June this year in various natural calamities in the state.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said that the state has incurred loss of 3500 crore due to the calamities.

Around 945 roads have been damaged and 7 lakh people have been affected by the calamities.
He said that the villages in Pithoragarh, Bageshwar  and Chamoli would be shifted in the first phase. The houses that sank in Bhatwari in Uttarkashi due to the landslides would also be shifted elsewhere.

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