India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Being the nodal agency for landslide studies, Geological Survey of India (GSI) has completed the landslide susceptibility mapping under the National Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (NLSM) programme on 1: 50,000 scale for the entire landslide prone hilly/ mountainous areas of the country including the Himalayan region, the Tertiary Belt of North-eastern India and Western Ghats, spreading over parts of 19 states/ UTs covering an area of about 4.3 lakh sq. km. areas. The landslide susceptibility maps show the total area classified into high, moderate and low zones based on their relative likelihood of susceptibility to landslide initiation, and can be used as a vita...