A year after Cyclone Nisarga, Raigad on road to resilience
The Hindu
Plans afoot to set up multi-purpose cyclone shelters, lightning arresters, saline water embankments, says District Collector
A year after Cyclone Nisarga made landfall in Murud, the Raigad administration has disbursed relief to the affected people and is on the path of building resilient infrastructure in the district. “Due to the Nisarga experience, we have built two multi-purpose cyclone shelters (MPCS) at Borli and Dighi under the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project. With the district being prone to such weather conditions, we will be building 26 more MPCS,” said District Collector Nidhi Choudhary. All proposed 26 shelters will come up in zilla parishad schools, of which 22 will be rebuilt at a proposed cost of ₹109.48 crore, while four will be repaired at ₹8.06 crore to make them cyclone-resilient. The proposals have been sent to the Maharashtra government.More Related News