JAMMU, Feb. 15 -- Senior social & health activist Sukesh C. Khajuria who has been raising various public interest issues for the past nearly four decades has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw his attention towards the urgent national need for strengthening earthquake resistant building infrastructure in the country taking a cue from the advanced, time-tested, and effective practices followed by Japan.
He wrote that India is geographically vulnerable to earthquakes, especially across the Himalayan belt, North-Eastern states, Gujarat, and Jammu and Kashmir, all of which lie in active seismic zones. He further stated that While India has established building codes such as IS 1893 and IS 13920, their enforcement on the g...