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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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Deblina Maiti
Deblina Maiti 11 years 4 months ago
cities need to make it mandatory for quake proof and fire proof licenses before a plan gets passed.the residents need a fire security drill / an earthquake security drill atleast once a year. the preparedness of disaster management teams also needs to be checked every month.
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Shankar Rishikesh
Shankar Rishikesh 11 years 4 months ago
the basic of DP is to get to know the kind of disaster and area where being executed. We should have a CHECK LIST ready (for almost all kind of known disasters)... #1: Local administration in contact including Police/ Administration/ Political etc.. #2: Vendor List/ NGOs - to provide items required in the area #3: Govt Agencies to provide resources/ machines/ equipments in time #4: Resource Management and Lead who could manage all these and be ready in advance with required items...
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anshul pandey
anshul pandey 11 years 4 months ago
sir we need to put disaster management programme tutorial for each & every person of india mandatory.Even basic first Aid course to be included so that every person can perform the task in case of any disaster as it takes time for the government to take any action & provide assitance but if we train all persons it will be good for us only & people will stop blaming govt. for anything & blame culture to govt can be stopped.
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Dr dinesh sharma
Dr dinesh sharma 11 years 4 months ago
another diamension in disasters now a day are the public outcries agitations mob violances which are purely man made becoming extremly difficult to manage it is a socio political problem some how our political leaders has to be extremely cautious during such agitations a single sentence can make the situation volatile such gathering of unruly mobs are to be strictly controlld the law is toe inforced strictly the leaders leading such mobes sould be held accountable
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Haris Mir
Haris Mir 11 years 4 months ago
Hi,it's good to be in mygov let me tel u sir, people of kashmir are suffering they are waiting to build there houses but the goverment is no where of kashmir don't know what is going to happen with us in future need a change thank u haris mir
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Bismay Ray
Bismay Ray 11 years 4 months ago
India has to suffer from vagaries for nature due to the fact it has a huge geographical landmass. This coupled with the fact that we have a high population density results in high casualty and damage.In order to protect our people from disasters we have to make disaster resistant houses,More shelter homes,Better use of technology to predict disasters,Better communication facilities like allowing use of sat phones and conducting disaster awareness programs and regular intervals etc.
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bharath varma
bharath varma 11 years 4 months ago
Bhopal gas tragedy in ucil 3,787 deaths related to the gas release.Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate,ucil is american concern,plz convay about this dissater to obama and get some compensation from them,we cant help died people atleast effected people can survive,even i am not from bhopal but its time to help that effected people
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Vivek Kumar Upadhyay
Vivek Kumar Upadhyay 11 years 4 months ago
आपदा से निपटने की यह तैयारी सभी आपदाओं के लिए अलग अलग होगी लेकिन सभी स्तिथितियों में जो चीज समान होगी वह है आपदा प्रबंधन प्रशिक्षण। आपदाओं का चरित्र क्षेत्रीय विविधता रखता है और सौभाग्य से हमारी परम्पराओं में इस संघर्ष की सदियों पुरानी कहानी छुपी हुई है जैसे मेरा गाँव बाढ़ प्रभावित रहा है तो वहा पर मैंने बचाव की व्यवस्था भी देखा है लोग अपना मकान उचाई पर बनाते हैं गाँव में जल प्रवेश मार्गों पर अवरोध रखते हैं।लोगों के अनुभव में बाढ़ की विभीषिका और जीवन की जिजीविषा की ढेर सारी स्मृतियाँ हैं।
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Vivek Kumar Upadhyay
Vivek Kumar Upadhyay 11 years 4 months ago
आपदा तैयारी एक प्रकार की बीमा है जिसके माध्यम से जोखिम को कम करने का प्रयास किया जाता है। सभ्यता का इतिहास बताता है कि प्रकृति जब अपने प्रचंड स्वरुप में आती है तब बचाव का कोई रास्ता नहीं बचता है। इसलिए हमें प्रकृति की सहनसीमा में ही अपने प्रयोग करने चाहिए। चूँकि प्रकृति धृष्टता का दंड देने में चयन नहीं करती इसलिए हमें ऐसे प्रकोप की स्तिथि में शरणागति स्तिथि की भी भविष्यमुखी समीक्षा कर लेनी चाहिए। इसके लिए हमें अपने बचाव की तैयारी के लिए न्यूनतम बचाव की व्यवस्था रखनी चाहिए।
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