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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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PARESH PARIYA 11 years 6 months ago

There is an urgent need to make set up like 911 as available in US and other developed country. By providing such setup we will be well equipped to deal with Disaster. The service should control Police, Fire, Ambulance and Disaster Relief team. The Disaster Relief team should be provided with Paramedics and Doctors. We must give boost up for Paramedics and separate stream should be developed so that immediate relief can be provided till the services are available.

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Rohit Sompura 11 years 6 months ago

I am from Pharma background and we hane one system which is known as RISK MANAGEMENT which is described in ICH Q9 guideline and PDA guideline. Same methodology can be followed to manage and control the risk and disaster. I cna provide more detail on it.

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shailesh dhyani 11 years 6 months ago

Sir, In Badrinath sector (Alaknanda Valley) landslides cause major disasters.One of reason for bad roads is landslides, and other main reason is the activities of BRO. The lack technical and geological expertise. If government works on PPP mode, good roads can be constructed and tourism can promoted. Large number of tourist avoid travelling in hilly region due to bad roads and landslides.

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shruthy v s 11 years 6 months ago

Sir landslides are a major disaster which occurs in western ghats and subhimalayan areas .An initiative can be launched to plant more trees in the area to prevent them.In the case of floods silt in rivers is a cause.Silt removal can be done in summers well in advance before the advent of monsoon rains.

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Satyajit Sheth 11 years 6 months ago

We are generally bad at planning/preparedness. We wake up only after the disaster. We then start making plans, which may or may not be completed. Then we forget about them only to remember them when the next disaster has already struck! Then we start looking for those old files.

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Ganesh Rajput 11 years 6 months ago

Helicopters (Useful in every terrain, for example Uttrakhand disaster) and Boats (Useful in flood , for example in J&K flood, Surat etc.) are very useful tools in disaster rescue operation. So govt should Mandate every District of India ( in primary stage, later every Taluka) should Have Min 1 Helicopters, and 10 Boats, Helicopters should be use for public transport, medical services in other times, or charted flight for generating revenue. govt should promote manufacturing of it.

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Kishore Otturu 11 years 6 months ago

Dear PM, Listing of all Occupations/Trades/Professions of the Indian citizens and link them with Aadhar database for proper management of Human Resource of the Nation. This will help a lot during any kind of disastrous management. Any way we have the aadhar database now in system, Linking this information with it wont be a difficulty task. Hope this might help in future administration also. Kishore Otturu

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subodh bansal 11 years 6 months ago

every school and college give training to student. save disaster and save from medical problem. this is must but not done so far by govt.

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Sanjeev Kumar Saxena 11 years 6 months ago

IT is need of Hour to Get ourself Ready for Disaster Management, I am of the opinion the present seriousness of ours is not at all upto mark for being ready to face Disaster so I Urge Hon'ble PM to kindly have a personal look into this very important matter. In my opinion all schools colleges general public must be through RWA Panchayats are taught ways to protect them in case of Quake, Fire, Flood, Attack, etc. I am First to Volunteer myself for this thing

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Roop Dave 11 years 6 months ago

Illiteracy, poverty and multiple languages (spoken and under stood) are few key limitations India is facing in improving national resilience. Absent community’s participation due to their limitation has made Government fully responsible in national resilience mission unlike western world. It is something like how a weaker family member is supported by other member who is more capable in a joint family, Government Would need to extend more support the community (which a weaker family member).

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