Assessing post-tsunami housing reconstruction: in Andaman and Nicobar Island: a people's perspective

The post-tsunami period in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands offered an opportunity to restore affected housing and living conditions of the large number of people whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged. This report presents findings from consultations with communities on three islands. From the southern-most and hardest hit island of Campbell Bay, home to people from the Nicobarese tribe, to Little and South Andaman where number of deaths was fewer but damage to homes and livelihoods extensive. Interviews were also conducted with officials and contractors. This report points out in detail that the inadequacy of response from the authorities, evident one year after the tsunami, continues to mark the landscape.