Give an account on the management of natural disaster like earthquake in India
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Answer:
The locational and geographical features render it vulnerable to a number of natural hazards such as cyclone drought, floods, earthquakes, fire, landslides and avalanches.
Explanation:
The country has an integrated administrative machinery for disaster management at National, Provincial (State), District and Sub-District levels.
India has a federal system of Government with role of Union and Provincial Governments specified by the
Constitution, The responsibility for undertaking rescue and relief measures in the event of natural calamities is that of the State Government concerned.
The Union Government supplements the State relief efforts by initiating supportive action. Elaborate
procedural mechanism outlined in relief manuals & codes and backed up by Contingency Action Plans along with allocation ofresources on a regular basis facilitates emergency management operations.
A National Contingency Action Plan has been notified.
The country has an elaborate cyclone detection, tracking system, flood forecasting and warning systems covering major rivers and drought monitoring arrangements.
Long term planning and preparedness for disaster mitigation form part of the process of development planning in India.
Science & technology inputs constitute its basic thrust which is manifested in development of forecasting and warning systems, disasterresistant construction technologies, appropriate cropping systems.
A number of special programmes are in operation over many years for mitigating the impact of natural disasters. As the country hasbeen facing natural hazards over centuries, the local communities have developed their own indigenous coping mechanism.
The rich store house of this knowledge is the country's proud inheritance. At times of emergencies, spontaneous mobilisation of communication supported by Non-governmental Organisations add strength to national capability in disaster management.
However, the areas where efforts made and results achieved have not been commensurate with the magnitude of the problem faced by natural disasters are forging linkages between disaster reduction and development, training and education, participation at the community level, enlisting people's participation in integrating social and human science inputs in vulnerability assessment and appropriate resource allocation against competing demands.
Accepting the fact that the trend of losses is not indicating any sign of improvement inspite of initiating various disaster mitigation measures, the country is planning to give more stress in some vital areas in this field during next century.
These include linkage of disaster mitigation with development plans, effective communication system , use of latest information technology, insurance, extensive public awareness and education campaigns particularly in the rural areas ,involvement of private sector , strengthening institutional mechanism and international co-operation.
India is committed to take necessary steps to achieve the goals and objective of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction .