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Disaster Preparedness

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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abhinav gupta
abhinav gupta 11 years 6 months ago
disaster preparedness should implementation through bottom up approach. strengthen empower from local people participation with skill and training especially poor people and woman and children to learn awareness and mitigation technique. the huge gap between policy making and academic. if we want to mitigate disaster then we develop more alert such as early warning system, flood and drought control alert through SMS and redio.
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RAJAGOPALAN KUNJITHAPADAM
RAJAGOPALAN KUNJITHAPADAM 11 years 6 months ago
Sir, Sandal wood trees holds a special place in our life next only to Tulsi plant. I still fail to understand why restrictions are in place in rearing Sandal trees and why no effort is made to revisit this law Countries like Australia have taken to development of sandal wood forms and shortly we may loose our position. Free saplings can be given to girl children to nurture and share the benefits with them. Such social security scheme for girl children be named as CHANDAN KANYA scheme.
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sujit lotlikar
sujit lotlikar 11 years 6 months ago
sir, preparedness we should start from villages & need is building which remain after disaster earthquake/flood proof. 1.make uniform building design for panchayat house facilitate other govt office like police,health,post,& space for disaster management
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Chandra Shekhar Barola
Chandra Shekhar Barola 11 years 6 months ago
It is surprising that whenever Pakistan talks about kashmir human right violation we dont tell that what about their Prime Minister rights violation (Bhutto was hanged, Nawaz was kicked out from his PM seat, what about the Pakistan MP rights violation, what about PAK being a theocratic state which means its constitution is itself biased, what about the rights of Constitution of Pakistan which has been repeatedly raped lastly by Gen Musharraf, what about human rights of Malala (women right voil
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PADMA NARAYAN DAS
PADMA NARAYAN DAS 11 years 6 months ago
Dear Sir, If possible!!! we need to procure some "Canal & Barrage project" in flood area for diversification & stop floods in that particular area. i am pointed out some area in the attached Map. it is just a suggestion. need to analyses.in this way we could stop every year losses. Another side for cyclone we need a research with scientific team to stop or minimize the pressure of cyclone by putting high speed air pressure or Freezing the eye of cyclonic storms.i don't think its a easy task.
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Lince Lawrence
Lince Lawrence 11 years 6 months ago
Becoming alert on the 'need to continue' irrespective of the circumstances is the first step... this is not a national responsibility alone - individuals, housing complexes, communities, associations... followed by Corporations, NGOs, and then Government. It is everyone's responsibility.
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Ghanshyam Jethwa
Ghanshyam Jethwa 11 years 6 months ago
In my experience working on disaster management in local and global contexts, India has unique human, material and technology powers, and awaits leadership and management initiatives to become a world leader in Disaster Management. It is about protecting lives of people at risk of disasters. I am happy to do my part in all possible ways.
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Nitin Chandra
Nitin Chandra 11 years 6 months ago
IT IS A PLACE WERE INDIA CAN CONTRIBUTE A LOT TO THE WORLD AS WE HAVE GOT HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHICH IS VERY NECESSARY IN TACKLING ANY FORM OF DISASTER. A govt. can,t do much in this area as it is an entire different field as it requires a total different look, technical expertise. I see we have a very good opportunity to earn from this also. Our country can earn through this service.
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