Flood Warnings and Recent Disaster at Uttarakhand

Abstract

The partition from Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand has been struggling for development pertaining to road connectivity, power supply and other developments like: education, health, tourism and water supply etc. During the development activities, it has perhaps not been taken care or totally ignored about the ecological imbalances being created by such activities. No proper indication or assessment is made from environmentalist foe Uttarakhand tragedy which occurred recently in the month of June' 2013 whereas in US there were announcement by Govt. to vacate the lower portion of New York city, 15 days before Sandy came on 31st Oct' 2012.
The said Uttarakhand disaster during June became an eye opener to cope with one of the worst ecological disasters in recent memory. Union Environment Minister, Jayanthi Natarajan said that an 'eco-sensitive zone plan' was in place in the State and that the authorities must not compromise on the 'fragile ecology' of the region. We must look this disaster with magnifying glass whether by giving such statement will make people aware about its non-revival in future course of time. In this paper, it suggested looking such kind of tragedy due to disaster in new direction and causes must be found out whether it was only due to development of buildings, roads and hydro power etc. for disturbing ecosystem or something else has indicator for such tragedy for that solutions can be worked out.