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Most of the tsunami victims still live in shacks [1]

Over three years after the tsunami nearly flattened parts of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, rehabilitation work is still on. Its progress seems slower than in other parts of the country. A scene from the picturesque Bamboo Flat permanent tenements is representative of the work in the entire archipelago. Completed houses, papered with expensive bamboo patterns, stand beside blocks of cement sticking out of wet mud

Publication Date: 
04/05/2008
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Andaman Islands [3], Nicobar Islands [4], Natural Disasters [5], Tsunami [6], Rehabilitation [7]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/andaman-islands
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nicobar-islands
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tsunami
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation