{"id":999,"date":"2007-11-21T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=999"},"modified":"2007-11-21T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T13:34:13","slug":"tsunami-prone-villages-of-orissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/999","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami prone villages of Orissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1071121\/asp\/frontpage\/story_8573443.asp\">a report in Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">&#8230; The tsunami travel time atlas, published by IIT, Kharagpur, has identified Orissa coast to be prone to tsunami, said state disaster management minister Manmohan Samal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">&#8230; 328 villages situated within 1.5km of the coastline in six coastal districts have been identified as tsunami-prone, said the minister.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">While 63 villages of Balasore district have been identified as tsunami-prone, 41 villages in neighbouring Bhadrak district have been enlisted as vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">Similarly, 64 sea-side villages of Kendrapara district, 28 coastal villages of Jagatsinghpur district, 88 villages of Puri and 44 villages of Ganjam district have been identified as prone to tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Giving details of National Tsunami Early Warning System, the expert said Orissa was covered under the network.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">Chief minister Naveen Patnaik&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; We have identified tsunami-prone villages and habitations and are taking steps to increase awareness of the general public on tsunami safety tips,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"story\">Meanwhile, the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA) had organised a workshop on October 30-31 to train the trainers on tsunami. Around 30 high school teachers teaching and science were sensitised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report in Telegraph. &#8230; The tsunami travel time atlas, published by IIT, Kharagpur, has identified Orissa coast to be prone to tsunami, said state disaster management minister Manmohan Samal. &#8230; 328 villages situated within 1.5km of the coastline in six coastal districts have been identified as tsunami-prone, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,8,30,573,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-balasore","category-district-bhadrakh","category-district-ganjam","category-district-jagatsinghpur","category-district-kendrapada","category-osdma","category-district-puri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}