3.3 Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project (ETRP) funded by World Bank (WB)

Government of Tamil Nadu formulated the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project (ETRP) with the financial and technical assistance from the World Bank to revive the livelihood and to reconstruct the damaged houses in the tsunami affected areas of the State. The NGOs came forward to take up the reconstruction of houses directly damaged by the tsunami. As a result there have been substantial savings in the credit facilities availed from the World Bank.

The Government are discussing a project for reconstruction of houses along the coastal stretch of 200 metres to 1000 metres from HTL, which are identified as vulnerable to the future disasters like tsunami, and thus establish resilient coastal communities.

Under this project, the following construction activities will be carried out by this department :-

Reconstruction of about 22,000 houses identified as vulnerable in the coastal areas lying between 200 metres to 1,000 metres from HTL.
ii. Construction of evacuation routes to a length of about 150 Km to provide easy escape routes in times of emergencies. Signages to access the safer shelters will also be incorporated along these evacuation routes.

Negotiations by Revenue Department with the World Bank are in an advanced stage and the implementation modalities of this project are being finalised.