(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
222 households throughout Tajikistan living in hazard prone
areas are planned to be relocated to safe place this year,
according to the Emergencies Committee under the Government of
Tajikistan, Trend reports with reference to Asia-Plus .
“Eighty-eight of those households are in Khatlon province,”
Umeda Yusufi, a spokeswoman for the Emergencies Committee, told
Asia-Plus in an interview.
To-date, Tajikistan emergency management agency employees have
reportedly carried out river bank reinforcement work in Danghara,
Khovaling, Vakhsh, Shamsiddin-Shohinand, and Kushoniyon
districts.
Besides, they have carried out explanatory work among local
population on the prevention of emergency situations, Ms. Yusufi
added.
According to data from the Emergencies Committee, natural
hazards last year, completely destroyed 257 residential buildings
and partially damaged 346 others in the country.
As it had been reported earlier, the World Bank's Board of
Executive Directors on March 11 approved a US$50 million IDA grant
for the Tajikistan Preparedness and Resilience to Disasters
Project, which will invest in strengthening the resilience of key
infrastructure against natural hazards, better mitigating
climate-related risks and enhancing the national capacity in
disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
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