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Nature 433, 5 (6 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433005a; Published online 5 January 2005

India pledges to fund alert system in wake of disaster

K. S. Jayaraman

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Government reacts with $29 million pledge for future warnings.

India's government and scientific establishment have been heavily criticized for failing to provide warning of a tsunami that drowned at least 12,000 people on the nation's eastern coast.Newspapers and opposition spokesmen have asked why a country with India's scientific resources couldn't better prepare for such an event.