Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency- Indian Context
Abstract
This article aims to develop an in-depth perspective on disaster management of
natural and man-made disasters so as to minimize the loss accountability after
occurrence of a disaster. Disaster management aims at managing the disaster in an
efficacious way by performing a pre- and post-disaster analysis of the concerned area
so that the disaster should cause least damage to the affected society. Disasters are
now increasing day by day due to various anthropogenic causes such as ignorance of
proposed structure for earthquake-resistant design in different areas for various
types of building material leads to massive destruction during occurrence of
earthquake in the concerned areas, floods have become quite frequent in middle and
lower regions of the Himalayas due to road construction on the Himalayas for
promoting tourism, overburdening of the Himalayan rivers with already installed and
newly commissioned hydel projects leads to provoke landslides in uphill and foothill
regions of northern India, where many more natural disasters are happening. Manmade
disasters, like political disturbance leading to civil riots and insurgency-like
situation in the country, rash and drunken driving leading to road accidents which kill
382 people in India every day out of which youths and children form the major part,
whereby disasters are swallowing the manpower or economy of the country in a
lethal way. This article depicts the level of preparedness, response, recovery and
mitigation measures to be adopted for natural and man-made disasters.
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