the steps being taken to ensure that each village or groups of villages have flood-level control, earthquake resistant and agro-commodity storage facilities?
the steps being taken to ensure that each village or groups of villages have flood-level control, earthquake resistant and agro-commodity storage facilities?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (SHRI KANTI LAL BHURIA)
This Ministry is implementing a scheme for construction of rural godowns to meet the
requirement of farmers for storing farm produce, agriculture inputs etc. The godowns built under
the scheme are required to be structurally sound as per the Central Public Works
Deaprtment/State Public Works Department specifications. No special steps have been taken to
make them earthquake resistant. However, a National Core Group for Earthquake Mitigation
was constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs and one of the decisions taken was to constitute
a committee of experts to draft model building bye laws for Seismic Zone III,IV & V. The
Expert Committee recommended amendments in town & country planning legislation, zoning
regulation, development control regulations for natural hazard prone areas and model building
bye laws for structural safety.
The Report of the Expert Committee was sent to all the State Governments/Union
Territory Administrations with the request to set up a committee to go through the
recommendations made in the report and adopt them to meet the requirement of the State so as to
give effect to a new techno legal regime. Building Material and Technology Promotion Council
(BMTPC), under the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India is assigned to assist
the States on the subject.