GEOGRAPHY

Environment and Ecology

Natural Disasters and Safeguard Measures Landslides in Wayanad

  • Heavy rain triggered a series of landslides in Wayanad district which lies in the Western Ghats.
  • Several people died in these massive landslides. Key Initiatives to mitigate landslide
  • National Landslide Risk Management Strategy (2019) by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
  • National Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (NLSM) Program
  • Landslide Risk Mitigation Scheme (LRMS)
  • National Guidelines on Landslides and Snow Avalanches
  • Landslide Atlas of India
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