In India, the majority of the population resides in rural areas, and the concept of development is often associated with urbanization. However, in environmentalist Ravi Chopra’s mind, rural development must be intricately tied to an area’s natural resources. “In the rural areas, the lives of people depend very critically on their immediate surroundings,” Chopra says. […]
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The skeletal remains of people killed in the disaster continued to be recovered from areas near the temple even years after the tragedy which is also known as the 'Himalayan Tsunami' because of the scale of damage to life and property
Roorkee : Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITRoorkee), and the Water Resources Department, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), New Delhi, jointly organize a National Hybrid Seminar on "Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) and Landslide La