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Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Bera, Sayantan (2012) Fancy wall for Sundarbans. Down To Earth, Vol.21 (1). p. 16. ISSN 0971-8079

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Abstract

For the residents of the Sundarbans vagaries of nature are not new. But as the calendar draws close to May 25, even an overnight drizzle drives up their fear quotient. The memories of Aila that struck the delta three years ago, killing 300 people and razing 400,000 houses, are still fresh in their mind. Saltwater ingression made farmlands unsuitable for agriculture, triggering large-scale distress migration. The supercyclone had breached about a fourth of the 3,500 kilometres of mud embankments that guarded the inland ecology and human habitations of the islands for over a century. Soon after Aila, a task force set up by the Union water resources ministry recommended reconstructing the breached embankments by March 2012.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: India, West Bengal, Mangroves, Sunderbans, Coastal Areas, Construction
Subjects: Biodiversity
Depositing User: Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2022 05:58
Last Modified: 01 Feb 2022 05:58
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/10845

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