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6.50
Plinth Height: min 3.0 m above G.L. [Ground floor stilted]
Location: Preferably on high ground and protected by shelter belt plantation.
Type of Construction: In accordance to the guidelines prescribed in ‘Improving Wind/Cyclone
Resistance - Guidelines’ (1999) by BMTPC (Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council)
[Also refer to the NCRMP Guidelines]
Approximate Cost of construction: Rs. 1.5 million per unit (assuming construction cost of Rs.
300/sft)
Ancillary facilities:
1. Wireless Land Line (WLL)
2. First Aid Kit
3. Preventive health care kit (ORS and other life saving drugs)
4. Safe drinking water storage (At least 1000 liters)
5. Sanitation facility
6. Food reserve for the children, sick and aged population
7. Fuel reserve
Alternative usage: Primary school, mass literacy center, community center, mass awareness
campaign and other public utility purposes.
Total Expenditure: Rs. 245 Crores [construction of 1640 no.s of cyclone shelters @ Rs. 1.5 million]
Construction of Community Bovine Shelter
The loss of bovines (cattle, buffalo, goat etc.) from cyclone and flooding has serious consequences
on the local economy of the rural communities. In addition to the community cyclone shelters for the
human beings, the need for community bovine shelter is also increasingly felt to offset this loss.
Past experiences and indigenous local knowledge reveal that animals do not die due to rain but due
to high velocity wind and gales. A land with an area of approximately 2 acres, located on the high
land is adequate to provide shelter to the bovine population of an average village (assuming bovine
population not exceeding 4000). Often it is wise to construct fish tanks (land area of 8 acres approx.)
next to the bovine shelter so that excavated earth can be used for elevating it to the desired level.
Over this elevated land, casurina and subabul (Leucaena leucocephala) plants are to be raised in
alternate rows at a distance of 2m from plant to plant. In between the rows, Stylos hemata, a
perennial leguminous fodder crop could be grown to augment the fodder needs. Arrangement of this
kind will function as a wind break and also protect the animals in deluge.
The entire task has to be accomplished upon community initiative. It is expected cost of construction
of such typical shelters will be in the range of Rs. 0.75 million including the cost of acquisition