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Question of Cities - CANSA Fellowship 2023-24

25 Nov 2023

of proliferation of such new cities, and the effects of planning in the context of The municipality lacks the resources, powers sustainable development and climate action. [...] Angana Das, former project officer of The shortfall in the bye-laws is that they the ECBC Cell for Assam, explains, “The offer no clarity on the processes between Inspectorate of Electricity, under the real estate developers and the state power department has the additional authorities, and do not clearly mention the responsibilities of the ASDA. [...] The SAPCC 2017, used growth including the provision of affordable currently, does not factor in the Heat Index; housing (or the lack of it) and multiple without this, relief measures and warning stories of some of the poorest urban families systems cannot effectively plan for the full dishoused and dispossessed for lofty city impact of a heat wave, especially on the beautification programmes. [...] “The floods damaged the Researchers are still investigating the causes roads and bridges to the project site and of the devastating flood and the contribution washed away the campsite and construction of different factors but most research offers materials,” said Dahal. [...] A Some studies have indicated the overflow of study by ICIMOD in 2021 on the Melamchi the Pemdan glacial lake located upstream Flood Disaster attributes its cause to in Melamchi catchment which resulted multiple processes along the Melamchi River in the destruction of the natural dam of including massive 21 million metric tonnes the Bhemathang area, ultimately eroding of debris dumped in the upper.
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