Is India ready to handle a Nepal-like situation? By Deepak Parvatiyar April 29, 2015 Rate this post I was posted as a correspondent of a prominent daily in Ahmedabad when tremors rocked Gujarat on the morning of the Republic day in 2001. Soon thereafter, almost all the communication networks came to a standstill. Mobiles hung and landlines got dead. There was an absolute chaos. No one was aware of the extent of damage that had occurred in Kutch- the epicentre of the earthquake and the neighbouring Saurashtra region. With the breakdown of communications channels, rumours ruled the roost to the extent that even a prominent television channel flashed wrong news, saying that the building that housed the United News of India office in Ahmedabad had collapsed. For a large part of the day, it was difficult for the media people to trace Gujarat’s Chief Minister because he was neither at the Secretariat nor at his official residence in the capital Gandhinagar. The hapless
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