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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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Manasi Abhyankar 11 years 1 month ago

I started working on school safety & Disaster preparedness voluntarily in 2005 when hardly anything was happening in this area in India. Basic disaster prevention & preparedness training when imparted to school children gives them the presence of mind required during emergencies & a heightened civic sense. This will help reduce the number of casualties in case there is any disaster. If we train children we can avoid another "Kumbhkonam" incident & tomorrow's India will be more disciplined.

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SEEMA KHOKHAR 11 years 1 month ago

I think, we will have to add a subject in our basic education (1st to 10th class), which is self deference from any type of natural disaster (swimming, climbing etc.) I am saying we should become self depended in case of natural disaster because natural disaster any time

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ketan gandhi 11 years 1 month ago

Funds allocated to Civil Defence corps should be spent on maintenance of the equipment purchased and preparing of database of volunteers enrolled in Civil Defence should be prepared at state level

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Tekumalla Srinivasa Chakravarthy 11 years 1 month ago

every district headquarters should have disaster prevention education center.Fire management,swimming,floods management,emergency medical handling,first aid certificate course should be conducted here for school students.certification must be compulsory for appearing in public exams at different levels for different exams.area specific specialties like cyclone preparedness,tsunami alert handling can be imparted in coastal districts.self-protection,helping others can be taught in different stage

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SALAI MANTHIRA MANI MANI 11 years 1 month ago

we can eliminate the loss of life by educating every people of India by conducting the awareness camp and to educate the people how to respond to the disaster situation. The educating of peoples becomes easy, if we conduct the camp and programs at the school and college level, in this stage the young peoples can learn how to respond to the situation, moral ethics, team work and culture kindly implement this idea in the school which will enhance the standard of indian education.

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Ankit Khandelwal 11 years 1 month ago

How about making everyone mandatory to either serve in army or NCC for few weeks once in a life time providing all the necessary training to cope up with any type of disaster?

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Hari Krishnan 11 years 1 month ago

How about providing first-aid training in all schools? How about training the children on method of approaching the police, firestation, doctors, incase of emergency?

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Amit Singh 11 years 1 month ago

Dear Sir, We have awfully disaster situation almost everyday on our border. Why cann't we provide bullet proof gears from head to toe of A1 quality to protect our soldier, specially when we know they have fight every day and night. It is seriously painful to see them going.

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Abhilekh Kaushik 11 years 2 months ago

create a tracking system like GPS or State alert bharat system,,,, will alert cyclone or natural disaster cause prevention is better than cure.

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Abhilekh Kaushik 11 years 2 months ago

natural disaster we are helpless in front of mother nature but we can take precaution. like life saving training and awareness in effected area, life saving drugs,healthcare,packet food, team trained of doctor,nurse,army,NDRF or SDRF, Ngo etc. Seaplanes for Rescue etc. Just Shared my view.

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