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Examine the problems of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Contemporary Issues

The hazard object is a moraine-dammed lake — meltwater behind a loose, often ice-cored debris ridge — and India cannot manage what it has not counted: the Himalaya holds some 20,000 glacial lakes, over 200 capable of catastrophic outburst, catalogued by satellite remote sensing, not ground survey.

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