A year has passed since the killer tsunami devastated the islands, but the Rs 600-crore corpus set aside by the Central government for rehabilitation of those who lost their homes, is yet to be utilised. The reason: the Centre can't make up its mind on the design for tribal housing, caught as it is between proposals from its own building agencies and from non-governmental organisations (ngos). While the ngo s are lobbying hard for their model of traditional timber houses approved by the Planning Commission and the home ministry, the Centre's building agencies
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/house-islander
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sharbendu-de
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/andaman-islands
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nicobar-islands
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tsunami
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/disaster-housing
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/housing-construction
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
