Nepal: Kathmandu under-prepared for earthquake

Source(s): Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd.

“We failed to learn from the 1934 disaster. There hasn’t been much progress to protect people and the existing infrastructure from earthquake,” said Amod Mani Dixit, executive director at the National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET), the major partner of the government working in earthquake preparedness, reports E-Kantipur.

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