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Hyderabad, Sept. 24 The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has unveiled an ambitious plan to combat natural and man-made disasters.

According to General N.C. Vij, Vice-Chairman, NDMA, a World Bank-funded, Rs 1,600-crore National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project was being finalised for 13 coastal States and Union Territories.

“Cyclone shelters, shelter-belt/mangrove plantations and link roads to vulnerable habitations would be taken up under this project,” he said after the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, released a book brought out by NDMA on disaster management guidelines here on Wednesday.

Gen Vij said the project would take off soon in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat and Maharashtra, which have long coastlines, and a digital project report was under preparation with Rs 1.5 crore.

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