Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations writes in an opinion piece that a major part of Nepal’s vulnerability to earthquake disaster lay in poor infrastructure governance.
According to Ayres, Nepal has been waiting for the quake of April 25, 2015 for some years, conscious that it was “overdue” for another. The U.S. Geological Survey has called Nepal “one of the most seismically hazardous regions on Earth”. Despite Nepal having developed a National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management in 2008, and its work to implement it, progress has been halting due to the country’s problem of on-again-off-again government especially during 2012 and 2013.
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