Disaster Resiliency in India
India has witnessed the occurrence of quite a few natural disasters in a very short period of time- Cyclone Fani in Odisha, floods in Kerala, Bihar and Assam. Rs. 12,000 crore and Rs. 21,000 crore are the losses incurred by Odisha due to the cyclone and Kerala from the 2018 floods respectively; apart from economic losses of $80 billion during the 20-year period of 1998-2017 (UN Report) that India had to bear, there are social and environmental consequences too, which will take years to be restored. India loses 1.2 million houses every year; India has suffered over 75,000 deaths and ....
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