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Lest We Forget the Teesta Disaster 2023
Report and Recommendations: Praful Rao, SaveTheHills and Darjeeling Himalaya Initiative
The Teesta Valley Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) of 04Oct2023 was certainly the biggest disaster to have affected the Darjeeling- Sikkim Himalaya after the mega -disaster of Oct1968. It was coincident that both the disasters occurred on the same date only half a century apart.
But while this disaster was totally under-reported in the national media, we in SaveTheHills and the Darjeeling Himalaya Initiative have made an attempt to correct this by featuring many posts in our blog and also making a formal report to the NDMA as well as the SSDMAs of Sikkim and W Bengal states on the impact of the GLOF as well as suggesting some short term measures which would see us thru the monsoons of 2024.