Spotlight on displacement for effective climate action
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
The voices of those who get amplified will rarely reflect the realities of those living on the margins and bearing the brunt of a warming planet.
That the two disasters coincided was in itself one of the deepest tragedies that the state contenanced. Described as the "costliest tropical cyclone of the year", the report has been crafted by Christian Aid, a relief and development agency based in London. It is said to have displaced 4.9 million people across the affected countries in the Bay of Bengal.
It is learnt that the party's state president Subrata Bakshi, secretary general Partha Chatterjee, vice president Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamul Youth Congress president Abhishek Banerjee held a meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishore and took this decision.
The Covid-19 pandemic has restricted the ecotourism influx in forest areas; labour migration was also stopped due to the lockdown.
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund recently provided UN agencies with 5.2 million US dollars to help families most at risk, the spokesman said.
A detailed assessment report on the damage caused by the cyclone to all the sectors is being prepared by the state government.
As per the CWC, a flood warning has been sounded in Jorhat, Sonitpur, and Baksa districts.
Around 90 per cent of its vegetable produce in Basirhat sub-divison have been destroyed after being submerged in rainwater as the Cyclone Amphan breached hundreds of river embankments.
The BJP MP also claimed that the state doesn't want the country to know about its "failure" in combating the crisis, and was "indulging in politics to keep the truth from coming out".
The Hyderabad chapter of Jadavpur University Alumni Association has raised Rs 1.5 lakh within a day and donated the amount to Bharat Sevashram Sangha for initial relief work.
