A construction worker was killed while at least seven more workers were feared trapped under mud following a landslip at a building construction site in Guntur city of Andhra Pradesh, about 35-km from here, late tonight.
Police sources said the mishap occurred when a 30-feet deep cellar was being dug for a proposed multi-storey building at Lakshmipuram in Guntur.
Eight workers were said to be on the spot when there was a sudden landslip, trapping them inside, the police said.
Police could extricate the body of one worker from the site while efforts were on to trace the others.
AP Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, MLAs Alapati Rajendra Prasad, N Anand Babu, district Collector Kantilal Dande and other officials rushed to the spot.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked his deputy N China Rajappa, who holds the Home portfolio, to rush to Guntur and oversee the rescue efforts, official sources said.
For the NLSM, the GSI is using an internationally
peer-reviewed methodology on 1:50,000 scale, exclusively developed through a four-year-long (2007-2011) international research in collaboration with the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands.
The NLSM project in vogue has been conceived, monitored and mentored continuously by the landslide experts of the newly-constituted Geohazards Research and Management (GHRM) Cell, CHQ, Kolkata.
Talking more about the project, the GSI official said for the completion of the entire NLSM target (0.42 million square kilometre), two priorities are identified - Priority 1 (about 66 per cent of the target) areas where habitation and roads exist is based on both the high-resolution remote sensing (RS) and field inputs.
The other one is the Priority 2 (about 34 per cent of total target) which are high-altitude and extremely inaccessible areas where fieldwork is difficult (or minimal) and the inputs maps are mostly based on high-resolution Remotely Sensed (RS) data.
During FS 2014-15, six per cent of NLSM Target in Priority 1 (16480 square kilometre) was completed by GSI in FS 2014-15 on a priority basis in Uttarakhand as per the advice of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) led by the Cabinet Secretary of the Central government.
The reports of all the completed items of NLSM in Uttarakhand have already been handed over to the Uttarakhand Government.
It was learnt that during the FS 2015-16, NLSM work is in progress with the deployment of 75 trained geoscientists in all the landslide prone Regions of India (NR, NER, ER, CR and SR) in 36 on-going items.
"We are expecting that 42 per cent of NLSM target in Priority 1 (1,16,150 square kilometre) is expected to be completed by the end of XII th Five-Year Plan (end of FS 2016-17)," the official said.
And the entire target of Priority 1 is expected to be completed by the end of FS 2019-20, he added stressing that it is estimated that economic loss due to landslides may reach between 1-2 per cent of the gross national product in many developing countries.
