Blog: Saving Lives

Wednesday 26 May 2021

Saving Lives

Every year, East coast and the West coast of India brace cyclones / tornadoes . This has been happening for decades with high probabilities

Apart from damage to properties, thousands of lives are lost ( YASS which just struck the East coast a couple of hours back this morning, has already claimed many lives )

Fortunately , over the past decade, advance warning system has improved considerably and provides advance warning of 2 / 3 days. This enables authorities to shift people from their coastal huts / tin sheds, to PUCCA concrete shelters, located a few km in the interior. When the storm subsides, people return to their homes , many of which are completely destroyed

Poor people ( mostly coast-based fishermen ) have no money to re-build their tin-sheds / thatched roof huts having mud walls !

Those who refuse to shift ( for whatever reason – including non-availability of nearby concrete shelters ), face death

Statistics prove that cyclone destroys only KUCHHA huts – never CONCRETE houses, even if such houses are very close to the beaches and in direct path of the cyclone. Concrete houses save lives – and the belongings of the occupants

Hence, the long-term answer is for the State Governments to replace ( of course, FREE ), all these huts with Concrete houses and rehabilitate these poor fishermen in these houses – at more or less , the same location as the original hut , or, at the most, within 2 km of original locations

These concrete houses could be planned into self-contained MINI-TOWNSHIPS ,with basic hygienic amenities ( piped water / toilets / effluent gutters / electric connection etc )

These may need to be only GROUND-FLOOR constructions . These may even be built to support a terrace-based SOLAR PANEL installation ( only for water heating or, also for small amount of electricity )

The ideal technology to build ( may be identical, 400 sq ft ground level houses with concrete terraces ), is :

3D HOUSE-PRINTING TECHNOLOGY

I urge the Housing Minister Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji to examine my above suggestion to SAVE LIVES

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 27 May 2021

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