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Disaster Preparedness

Start Date :

Dec 31, 2014

Last Date :

Jan 23, 2015

18:30 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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India faces many natural hazards, including floods, cyclones, drought etc. But every hazard need not turn into a disaster. By careful planning, capacity building, early warning, ...

India faces many natural hazards, including floods, cyclones, drought etc. But every hazard need not turn into a disaster. By careful planning, capacity building, early warning, community participation, procurement and pre-positioning of necessary equipment and resources, participation of civil society, assigning clear role to the private sector, involving panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies, rigorous enforcement of techno-legal regime on land use and building regulations etc., significant reductions of losses can be brought about in such events. We have a national policy on disaster management, at http://ndmindia.nic.in/NPDM-101209.pdf

We have created a number of institutions by way of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, which may be seen at http://ndmindia.nic.in/acts-rules/DisasterManagementAct2005.pdf

What more can be done to enhance our preparedness to handle natural disasters?

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mayank sharma 11 years 5 months ago

We could put Water level indicators at various places alongside rivers at various places and seismographic readings to create an early warning systems. We could create nodal centres for displaced relief with equipment to independently cater to camps helping the displaced people with temporarily transit with the natural calamity. The NDRF needs to be equipped with an air wing so that the air force does not have to run a relief operation during every calamity, thus reducing their ops preparedness

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mayank sharma 11 years 5 months ago

Preparation of local volunteering schemes in small circles with maximum participation of the local population.training of local volunteers on regular basis to effectively combat the disaster, may it be of any kind. collection, by putting donation boxes for national disaster relief fund at various public places. Providing localized teams with quality equipment to combat disasters at a localized level without even having to involve the army. Involving N.C.C at a greater scale for disaster relief.

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Dr dinesh sharma 11 years 5 months ago

the country is having acute experts in disaster medicine at present no institution is providing training in the subject manage ment of casualties at the disaster site is critically important needs quick decision making in situation that requires capacity of providing maximum results with minimum rseources in hand the medical personels working in disaster prone areas are to repeted training indisaster medicin doctors nurses paramedical staff community volunteers etc are the target groups.

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shruthy v s 11 years 5 months ago

Sir we can create danger level auto alert in rivers so that this alert will sent auto sms to the officials and rings siren to alert people.such systems can be installed in highly populated areas near the rivers.people living in flood prone areas can be asked to register for mobile alerts so that they can move to safer places. The help of drones can be used in search and rescue operations in case of earthquake affected regions. drones can be used to distribute food in relief camps.

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brajesh sharma 11 years 5 months ago

minister of railways sir mera ek request hai ki kanpur se ndls ke beech jo shatabdi chalti hai us ko jan shatabdi mai badal do yadi isa hota hai to gadi loss ke bajay profit ma aa jayagi

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brajesh sharma 11 years 5 months ago

sir me kal se republic day pared ke tiket ke liye janter manter &central secretiate ke beech mara mara fir raha hu koi kahata hai ki ticket abhi aayi nahi hai koi kahta hai ki bick gayi -kya yahi good governence hai isi ka sapna dikhaya tha verry bad

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Gourav Dixit 11 years 5 months ago

When a disaster breaks,especially natural disaster then many people became homeless. Govt. should supply these people with a trunk which will carry following items. 1. Tadpatri(Plastic sheet 8 x 6 feet) 2. LED Torch 3. First aid box with water cleaning solution. 4.2 Blanket 5. Dry food/2ltr water bottle. 6. Lock 7. Small dry battery that can charge mobile and led torch. This should be distributed immediately after disaster so people can survive till major relief work starts.

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divakar manjari Hanumanthappa 11 years 5 months ago

Disaster effects can be minimized or avoided with proper planning well in advance. educating people in advance about the natural hazards and how it can be faced .whom to contact, how, Technology can be best utilized, support of community support, community participation ,making active involvement of educated and young youths volunteers, specially NCC,NSS,RED-CROSS society ete..

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Vishal Mevawala 11 years 5 months ago

Hi, I am working in US since last 8 month. I have observed man y thing which we can adopt to improve our economy, to be a clean country. I have observed that US don't have currency over 100$ and we do have 1000 INR currency. Can we also follow the the path of US to reduce corruption. I know i am not economist and India must have already think in this direction.

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bharat konduru 11 years 5 months ago

A strong plastic made of thin bin material.Can be used for building constructions.The shape of the building should be step pyramidal.Then it will resist to earth quacks,tsunamies (it will floww on the water),and all other ntural disasters.experiments need to conduct on it.

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