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Improving Resilience to Disasters (India: highly vulnerable (Poor…
Improving Resilience to Disasters
India: highly vulnerable
About 70% of the
coastal areas are prone to tsunamis andcyclones, 60% of landmass is vulnerable to
earthquakes, 10% prone to floods
Earthquake engineering is taught as a
specialisation in just a few universities.
-There is shortage of Retrofitting-trained civil engineering manpower
Risk management aspects forgotten
In 2003,Home ministry proposed formation of specialist team for DM using battalions of CSIF and ITBPas not imroved Doppler Radar systems to provide early warnings about cloudbursts and heavy rain
Kedarnath Floods 2013: Uttarakhand
Few guidelines for constructions in flood-prone regions or even map of such zones
Poor management of dams
no emergency action plans for majority of dams
No inflow forecasts
NDRF is hampered by the shortage of trained
manpower, training, infrastructure and equipment
CAG highlighted tha NDMAs performance in projects such as vulnerability assessment and mitigation in major cities as "Abyssmal"
Unified norms needed
Each state and district has different costs for labour and construction
Amount of compensation is same across states
Areas of concern
Major disaster management plans are skewed
towards rural areas, focussing on agriculturefisheries, livestock and handicrafts, from a relief
perspective.
Revenue offfials after disaster have to assess the damage. Theres misuse and corruption among them
the unlisted disasters, which are not
included in the specifications under the CalamityRelief Fund are restricted to a relief of 10% of the
fund 's annual allocation
Need of the hour
Planned urbanisation can withstand
disasters, classic example is Japan
The India Disaster Resource Network should
be institutionalised as a repository fororganised information and equipment
gathering
India needs a strong Disaster Management
Agency which focuses on
-immediate contingency
-Implementing a long term, conceptual rehabilitation strategy
-Maintaining an Ethanographic Understanding
Anticipatory governance including foresight and fostering citizen awareness
NDRF filling vacant specialist positions with support of Indian army, paramilitary forces
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