landslides

Built without using stones, bricks or cement, Gopalalrishan's 1300 sqft house is designed to float atop flood waters when the water level rises! #Innovation #Kerala

And that's not all they are doing. While DC Annies Kanmani Joy and SP Suman D Pennekar are both battling the timber mafia, ZP CEO K Lakshmi Priya is helping kids who have dropped out of school to enroll once again! #Respect #WomenPower #LeadingByExample

"The vulnerability of the location and weak construction of the self-engineered shanties leaves thousands defenseless during monsoons. Government intervention has been minimal and these people don’t know how to protect themselves. I wanted to change that!” #Innovation #ImpactThatMatters #Mumbai

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

Amazingly, the state has been suffering its own disaster for a month now, but still contributed Rs 1 crore for Kerala Flood Relief.

“To address the problem of landslides and to reduce the cost of sensing these disasters, a faculty-student group named iIoTs, incubated by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi's technology incubator, Catalyst, has developed an indigenously built low-cost landslide monitoring and warning technology."

The Paharis—the native people of Uttarakhand—are known for their determination and grit, and know how to rise above a disaster when it strikes.