The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) shares in the nation’s grief over the terrible and extensive loss of life, home and livelihood owing to the recent floods and landslides in Uttarakhand. The DUTA empathises with the irreconcilable sense of loss and trauma suffered by the loved ones and family members of those who have been reported dead, as well as the anxiety for many more reported missing, even as the extent of destruction wreaked by this calamity remains to be assessed fully.
The DUTA will, over the coming days, decide on measures through which it can appropriately contribute to the relief and reconstruction efforts that are being organized in order to assuage the people’s suffering in the wake of this tragedy.
Further, the DUTA hopes that this sombre occasion compels the Government and Private Industry to introspect on its push towards indiscriminate development involving big Hydel Power Projects on the perennial rivers, rampant Deforestation and incessant Real Estate Development as this model of progressevidently runs into conflict with the fragile Himalayan ecosystem and the sustainable ways of life in the region.
Amar Deo Sharma S.D. Siddiqui
President, DUTA Secretary, DUTA