Governor NN Vohra has urged Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to take personal cognisance and issue firm directives to each and every stakeholder to start preparing for dealing with an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and above. In a letter to the Chief Minister, the Governor re-iterated that J&K is predominantly located in Seismic Zone V and people had, as recently as, in the 2005 earthquake, suffered considerable losses. Noting the response of the administrative system to the September 2014 floods, the Governor expressed concern saying, “we were…
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