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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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Parveen Kumar Jain
Parveen Kumar Jain 11 years 6 months ago
Declare one week or 15 days in School as Disaster Prerpredness week and training should be provided by paramilitry personel in practical way and related littratrure should be distributed among the societies through students. Moral and Social Week should also be announced in schools and collages. Ask every student to form an Self Help Group in their colony or Society
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Jagbir Joon
Jagbir Joon 11 years 6 months ago
For these people government should ask to those people for fund who can donate money every month for there help according to their will or as much as they can.and government should register there account numbers in our banks. And deduct as much money as they want from there accounts and transfer it directly to primer minister relief fund. I am saying this because every bank account holder doesn't know about PMRF but they know about disaster happen in our country.
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Prashant Singh
Prashant Singh 11 years 6 months ago
There should be provision of basements in the house which are situated in cyclone prone areas. Residents living in valley floors should be facilitated with the option of temporary transhumance (seasonal residence in higher altitudes, away from the dangers of floods). Advertise or make it necessary for houses in disaster prone areas to have a disaster kit always ready with them.
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ARUN GOPI
ARUN GOPI 11 years 6 months ago
Our disaster prepardeness in the recent cyclone is to be well appreciated.Credit goes to the weather forecasting department of India.
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shailesh dhyani
shailesh dhyani 11 years 6 months ago
In Uttarakhand rope ways are the best medium to move from one hill to another without highways. Rope ways not only carry human beings but articles of necessity too. Rope ways should be developed at regular intervals in times of emergency.
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Gaurang JHAVERI
Gaurang JHAVERI 11 years 6 months ago
basic training for activities like ducting your head, protecting the spinal cord etc must be given since school. communicating messages to security forces incase of being a hostage must also be trained at college level, 2 months internship with police, paramilitary forces in std 14th must be proposed and encouraged, adventure sports can play a major role
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shailesh dhyani
shailesh dhyani 11 years 6 months ago
Climate change has become a reality. Knowledge and information can help us to be prepared to meet any disastrous situation.Protection from Natural disaster should be a continuous process and it should not be taken as programme or government mission. Public has to bear the responsibility for protecting themselves and their neighbors. The Government should develop information channels which could reach the remotest area of the country within minutes.
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Deepak Jacob
Deepak Jacob 11 years 6 months ago
Map india into cyclone prone areas,earthquake prone areas,flood prone areas,lanslide prone areas with ranks from severe to mild and have NDRF teams in all severe areas.NDRF should have dedicated helicopter and emergency rescue team to fly to these areas with emergency tents,medicines and supplies.
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