03 Jan 2005

The Tsunami & After
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "16. India has not been a member of any of the tsunami warning systems. Past proposals for India to set up is own national warning system and to join the international (mainly Pacific) network was given low priority apparently due to the high financial implications (Rs.1,000 million---Rs.45 equal to one US dollar) and the fact that India had not been a victim of tsunami waves for a little over 100 years.
17. India's vulnerability to tsunami-caused destruction was estimated as very low, if not non-existent. As a result, not only was there no effort to set up an advance warning and international networking system, but tsunami-vulnerability was not one of the factors taken into account in the determination of the location of our nuclear and space launching establishments and in designing their safety features. Similarly, this vulnerability was not taken into consideration while determining the location of our military establishments in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and their safety features." - b.raman]
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1209.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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