Act fast to mitigate a disaster in Teesta Valley, groups urge PM, CMs
Sikkim and West Bengal need to approach disasters at a landscape level instead of limiting their focus to within their respective boundaries
The Teesta Valley has only six months before the 2025 monsoon aggravates the damage wrought by the disastrous glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in October 2023, two community-based green Himalayan organisations have warned the government.
The 2023 GLOF and the subsequent NHPC, Ltd. power project dam breach claimed more than a hundred lives, disrupted livelihoods, and destroyed assets and critical military installations, apart from ecological devastation in its wake across Sikkim and West Bengal.
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