Showing posts with label Churachandpur disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Churachandpur disaster. Show all posts

Aug 1, 2015

Disaster alarm in Churachandpur district

To what extend are we prepared to face Natural Disasters?

- T. Zamlunmang Zou @ Pupu Zou

Khuga river where one human life was lost on 01-08-2015
Churachandpur, popularly known as the second largest town of the state currently tastes the iceberg of what a natural disaster is! The magnitude of what we presently experience is so small that, it is not fit to be called natural disaster, but manmade disaster. Those eye witnesses said, Lanva stream was over-flowed due to excessive encroachment by the nearby residents, while Tuitha River inundated several residential areas due to the release of water from Khuga Dam water reservoir. At the very outset, let us see the demographic details of our district.