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Gujarat
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Odisha
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Rajasthan
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Bihar
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Odisha State is motivated to make all 326 villages and urban local bodies Tsunami Ready in 1-years’ time”, said Managing Director P.K.
Detailed explanation-2: -The villages of Tambakrejo (East Java), Kemadang and Glagah (Yogyakarta) are successfully implementing the Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme established by UNESCO, through its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO).
Detailed explanation-3: -The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami or, in the scientific community, the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.
Detailed explanation-4: -While India has become the first country in the Indian Ocean region to receive such an honour, Odisha has become the first state in the country to have such villages. It’s been more than 15 years since the devastating tsunami took place in the year 2004.