Telecom towers and multi-hazard disaster resilience
Quick dive
- The study assessed 48,416 telecom towers across five States.
- 83% of 18,388 mapped Assam towers were in very high cyclonic-wind zones.
- Tamil Nadu had 57% of towers in high or very high cyclonic-wind risk, with concentrations around Chennai and nearby districts.
- Networks may fail without tower damage when power, fibre, backhaul, roads or generator fuel are disrupted.
- exam_relevance: tests the exact risk figures and the disaster-management concept of systemic interdependence, a concrete application of critical-infrastructure resilience rather than generic cyclone awareness.
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