A team comprising students and officials visited the most devastated villages of Uttarakhand after the calamity and a report is expected soon.
"We have researched around 96 villages which were most affected during the disaster. The report is expected next week. The report will help and support government and other agencies to adopt villages to take measures for the coming winter," said S.Parasuraman, Director, TISS while releasing the second edition of the India Disaster Report (IDR-II) here today.
The research report is aimed at at helping the state as well as central government and other agencies to devise the best way of dealing with such disasters and its prevention. The TISS has a very strong presence in the state since the cloud burst happened, he said.
Officials added that starting from August 27, a group of 25 students along with faculties will spend around five weeks for this detailed report and analyse why such a situation had developed.
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Stressing the need for proper warning system and real time dissemination of the information to the people, officials maintained that in Andhra Pradesh, there are proper warning systems now and people have started reacting to cyclone warnings.
"However, in Uttarakhand people had come from all over the country. Nowadays radios are almost non existent and television and cellphones are there. However, there was a language barrier in Uttarakhand. Therefore, a lot of innovations need to be done in this area," a senior official said.