Enhancing Disaster Resilience of India’s Undersea Cables
Implementing Partner: Build Change
Project name:Enhancing Disaster Resilience of India’s Undersea Cables in India
This study assesses disaster risks to cable landing infrastructure in Mumbai, Chennai, Port Blair, and Digha, recognizing undersea communication cables as critical assets amid climate threats.
It aims to establish a robust policy framework integrating resilience into design and construction.
By developing customized building codes and standards, the project enhances infrastructure durability, ensuring secure and adaptive communication networks that withstand environmental hazards and safeguard India’s coastal connectivity against future disruptions.
outages caused by disasters
floods in India in
recent decades
Impact
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This project evaluates national and international standards for undersea cable infrastructure, identifying a critical gap: current guidelines largely neglect onshore components like landing stations and beach manholes, exposing them to disaster risks and compromising coastal network resilience.
2
Critical onshore facilities, such as cable landing stations and beach manholes, lack dedicated resilience standards. Developing disaster-focused construction guidelines is crucial to fortify these infrastructures, ensuring long-term durability and uninterrupted operational performance in extreme conditions.
3
This project establishes a forward-looking policy framework that embeds disaster risk management into national building codes for undersea cable infrastructure. By strengthening resilience standards, it ensures uninterrupted digital connectivity during natural and climate-related disasters, reducing operational vulnerabilities.
