Past tragedies fail to bring successive regimes out of slumber Tectonically active Jammu and Kashmir has no mechanism to identify and keep a tab on unsafe buildings in all major cities and towns. Enforcement agencies have ‘miserably failed’ to check haphazard construction despite ‘repeated warnings’ of the possibility of an overdue high-intensity earthquake. This is in addition to the failure of successive governments to put in place a concrete disaster management plan in the state, which is in seismic zones IV and V. “No exercise to have official data of…
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