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'Magnitude of the impact of climate change on wheat production in India assessed through simulation studies indicated that an increase in 1 degree Celsius mean temperature, would not cause any significant loss to wheat production in India, if simple adaptation strategies such as change in planting date and varieties are used'...

Reminding of the seismic activity of the Himachal geographical area, the urban development department cautions against the magnitude of unplanned growth that increases risks of a disaster in waiting as more and more high rise buildings come up in the hills and town planners grapple with over 6,000 structures that have violated building laws...

'Citizens and hospital authorities wake up to the need for a disaster management plan after an event, the learning from which is forgotten soon after. Prevention of a disaster and public awareness on the subject remains a major limitation,' said one of the experts attending a two-day national conference...

'Infrastructures like drainage systems, roads and transportations, buildings and so on which we are developing now will last several decades. If they do not incorporate features to adapt to climate change there are going to be huge losses'...

'The activities taken up include downscaling of assessment of climate change impact... and disaster risk reduction with effective governance mechanisms,' said Sushil Bajpai, director of the non-governmental organisation Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)...

The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) wishes to collaborate with Earth Institute of Columbia University for the development of a disaster management framework...

'Though India has been losing property and crops worth Rs.86,000 crore annually for the past few years due to the various types of disasters, mitigation and disaster management are extremely inadequate in the country'...

'Though we could manage to tackle the disasters well, but still we need more preparedness in the coming days. We have to make the preparations more alert to make it a disaster resilient state'...