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Archive of Vol. XV No. 8, August 1-15, 2005 Reg. No. TN/PMG (CCR) /814/04-05 Licence No. WPP 506/04-05 Registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India under WE CARE FOR MADRAS THAT IS CHENNAI R.N. 53640/91 INSIDE The Sethu & the weather Home of Music & Art MADRAS The romance of the NMR A life of hell MUSINGS Softball in Madras Rs. 5 per copy Vol. XV No. 8 August 1-15, 2005 (Annual Subscription: Rs. 100/-) World Heritage status for NMR (By A Correspondent) he Nilgiri Mountain Rail- You are a minute late... We just sold T way (NMR) has been the last copy... There he goes! given World Heritage status by the World Heritage Commit- Gee...Wiz....! tee. The committee renamed The last two weeks of July proved the Nilgiri Mountain Railway traumatic. Homes witnessed and the Darjeeling Himalayan feverish activity and loud Railway as Mountain Railways arguments. of India. This brings to a suc- The ugly head of competition reared its...er...ugly head, wear- cessful conclusion the efforts of ing its one-upmanship hat, to the Southern Railway, the boot. National Rail Museum, Delhi, (Bit weird that sentence. Not quite and the Railway Board, which sure how.) began in 1999, to get this All because a book about a certain imprimatur. boy wizard hit the stands. In September 2004, Prof. The brouhaha was largely over Robert Lee from Sydney, Aus- The Nilgiri Mountain Railway steams up the Blue Mountain ghats before retrofitment with an oilfiring system. who got to The Book first. tralia, visited the Nilgiris as part (Courtesy: Southern Railway.) Children leapt out of bed, display- ing speed which stunned long- of a UNESCO team and evalu- suffering parents, and young and ated the properties of the NMR, old staggered and stumbled to including its buildings, bridges How to get our act bookshops (happy people, these and other structures. guys) in dim, pre-sunrise dark- The mountain railway con- ness, with adults pretending they necting Mettupalayam to were doing this for the kid- Udhagamandalam was con- together during disasters dies. structed in 1908. The railways Deals were struck through various rack and pinion mechanism so ost-tsunami, there has been in developing effective early policy, which should also incor- family layers, and time-tables as to gain height, its steam en- Pa flurry of activity in the warning systems. porate cross-cutting pro- and schedules set to ensure equal areas affected in disaster grammes. distribution. All attempts on gines, coaches and station l A National Observation part of adults to pull rank or buildings have all been preser- mitigation, volunteerism, and System, with subsidiaries at l Coordination and cooper- resort to bribery were speedily ved in their original shape and relief and rehabilitation. There local levels going up to villages, ation either from grassroot to suppressed by savvy youngsters. impressed Lee, who declared have also been many workshops with incorporation of vital top or from a large organisation There were discordant voices... them testimony to the tech- away from these areas, ground level information. to smaller ones, aiming at (they do come leaping out of the involving think tank groups and nological skills of a bygone era. l Psycho-social help during agency-level coordination and woodwork wherever theres a It is genuinely outstanding, the various stakeholders. At a disasters. not individual specific. success story, dont they?)... even unique, the 29th session recent discussion in Chennai holding long discourses on The participants had point- of the World Heritage Commit- jointly organised by the l by ed out the following: social relevance, escapist National Institute of Disaster work, and making sniffy digs at tee observed, noting the ge- SHOBHA MENON clever marketing. Whatever... nius of the late 19th Century Management (NIDM), the On disaster preparedness railway engineers. India Habitat Centre (IHC) Look, if a humungous mass of l Disaster preparedness and l Equipment for disaster people, distinguished by its vari- The 46 km railway line was and the Centre for Security mitigation should be aimed at relief to network within ety, can, for one brief moment, first proposed in 1854, but the Analysis (CSA), the final (instead of only disaster mitiga- themselves and be on a 24-hour partake happily, unapolo- tough mountainous terrain recommendations pointed out tion). getically, in a global pheno- posed several challenges and the imperative need for: alert. menon for fun, if even jaded l Disaster preparedness actual work was taken up only l Upgradation of early warn- l Environmental education should go in tune with deve- adults can get a thrill out of a in 1891. The railway line, ini- ing systems. and disaster awareness as a simple fantasy saga then there lopment activities. tially laid from Mettupalayam l Efficient dissemination of compulsory element in school is hope for a race which has done l The disaster preparedness everything possible over to Coonoor, was opened in information on disaster. education. component should be incorpo- centuries to earn the sobriquet (Continued on Page 6) l A standardised code for l To get our act together rated in rehabilitation. during trouble-free times and Natures-biggest-goof-up-to- information collection and l A multi-hazard approach date. dissemination. not wait for disasters to strike. Ranjitha Ashok Also see pages 4 & 5 l International collaboration l Volunteer induction (Continued on Page 2) 2 MADRAS MUSINGS August 1-15, 2005 l The Sethu Project Animal travails in Impact of cyclones Guindy Park ome to the Childrens Park, Guindy, to watch the Cexquisite Rosy or White Pelicans floating buoyantly and tsunamis in the water, proclaims a Chennai travel-based website. The sheer size of the birds strikes the eyes of visitors (Continued from last i.e. 24 cms/year. The two legs of fected, the death toll said to be to the Park. Larger than the vulture, the Rosy Pelicans fortnight) the SSCP where dredging is re- over 30,000 . It is also reported themselves may be striking, but the Park itself is no longer quired happen to cross two such that a local seismic activity took a fun-filled experience for children). hat was considered microregions with a high sedi- place in the Palk Bay region. W unfeasible for 150 years, A heap of rubbish, including plastic waste, is strewn mentation rate. the politicians of Tamil Nadu From Palk Strait and carelessly behind the refreshments stall near the entrance. Of the 61 cyclones between have succeeded in making the through Palk Bay and upto Ad- A wild spotted deer, which has strayed from the 1891 and 1995. 36 were severe UPAs Cabinet Committee of ams Bridge (see Madras neighbouring Guindy National Park, rummages through storms (wind speeds more than Economic Affairs approve. Yet, Musings, July 16th) the water is the waste for food. 89 kmph), 6 directly crossed the it was only three months ago shallow. After crossing the The first exhibit on the way inside the park is a solitary Palk Bay, 14 crossed the Naga- that the PMO noted: The tsu- Bridge, the waters are deep Bengal Vulture. A container of water in one corner of the pattinam coast, 3 crossed the nami would have wrought upto Tuticorin. The shallow ar- cage and some pieces of meat are all there in the cage. A Gulf of Mannar. Based on the much more havoc had the eas, shown by satellite imagery, small trough, supposedly for the bird to take a dip and storm surge value (3-5 metres), Sethusamudram been in opera- are 2 3 metres deep. beat the heat, lies dry. Yet, an environment like this can the Meteorological Depart- tion. According to the authorities, adversely affect an otherwise healthy vulture. ment considers the coastal the average depth is about 6.6 A detailed study titled Pre- Then there is the enclosure for the pelicans, which stretch between Nagapattinam metres; to deepen this to 12m, and post-tsunami Sethusamu- had barely enough water in its pond for the birds to cover and Pamban a high risk zone. the sea bed has to be dredged to dram Shipping Channel Project their feet. This is the sad condition in the Park in spite of Sutapa Chandary etal (2004) a depth of 5.4 m. Dredging this by R. Ramesh gives a vivid ac- its claims that there is no water shortage, having as it does have named this coastal stretch depth for a 300 m width and count of how the December two borewells and a rainwater harvesting system put in and that of Bangladesh as the over the 20 km length of the 2004 tsunami waves entered place during the past two years. through the Palk Strait, spread- first leg will generate 32.5 mil- Water shortage during summers was a big problem for ing into the Palk Bay from the lion cubic metres of sand/clay l by the Park until three years ago, but not now, claim Park north and how another arm of etc. The second leg of 80 km is officials. the waves, circling Sri Lanka, K.V.S. KRISHNA deep (I do not know how deep) entered via Gulf of Mannar and and so there would not be any The daily water requirement of the Parks visitors is clashed with the waves coming most vulnerable ones among dredging. The last leg of about 10,000 litres and that of the animals is 20,000 litres. This from the north at Adams the coastal regions of the Bay of 54 km in length needs dredg- is available, say the officials, but the scene today suggests Bridge for 20 minutes, 170 min- Bengal. It has been noted that ing, and will generate 52 mil- no such availability.
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