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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:31 am Post subject: start with smaller goal |
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Let us try to find out how we can get started. If initially, a big project is envisaged it will be lost in committees. Can we impress on some dynamic local MP to start work on a new hospital from the constituency fund as a SLR project and then extend that idea. Shall I send a draft letter to Mr. Barua to send it to PM as a MP from Assam I am awaiting some response on the factor to be used for SLR buildings ARC
On Tue Nov 22 08:20:29 2005, ibarua[AT]deg... <ibarua[AT]deg...> wrote:
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Dear Sudhir and Prof. ARC,
I think we can make a start by calling upon the State governments in the NE Region to make risk assessments for the post event command /control centres, hospitals, nursing homes, fire stations, schools, electric sub-stations and water reservoirs. If a structure is found deficient, then it is to be retrofitted. This is what we had proposed in the meetings of the committee set up by the GMDA to identify potentially hazardous buildings in Guwahati. The project, as I have already told you, was aborted by the powers that be, for reasons I have never been able to fathom.
By the way, there are now three bridges over the Brahmaputra, with one more coming up. Out of these, all except one, being rail-cum-road bridges have steel superstructures. The one near Tezpur is a PSC road bridge, the longitudinal axis being over a vertical fault discovered during the construction of the bridge. The design seismic force was taken as g/6 as per recommendations of (then) Roorkee University. One of the piers had tilted towards the Tezpur side, the rotation being about 0.1 deg. at the base resulting in a horizontal translation of about 125 mm at the top of the pier, and some visible damage to the articulation between the cantilver and the suspended spans, and the adjacent railings.
The number of dams in the region has gone up. There are now six dams, with the one over river Ranganadi in Arunachal Pradesh being of the rock-fill type. The others are concrete dams.
Regards,
Yours sincerely, Indrajit Barua.
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