How armed forces helped in gujarat earthquake2001
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GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE, 2001
Around 8.45 in the morning on India’s 52nd Republic Day — January 26, 2001, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck Gujarat. The earthquake caused over 13,800 deaths and extensive damage to properties in the state. Damage to a lesser extent also occurred in the adjoining states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan in India and in Sindh province of Pakistan.
ActionAid India’s Response
Soon after the quake ravaged the state, ActionAid India started relief and rehabilitation efforts in Kutch district, one of the most affected districts of Gujarat, through a network of eight local community-based organizations that called themselves Sneh Samudaya (Caring Community) — that came together to ensure rehabilitation within communities of the most vulnerable among the survivors of the earthquake. These included children who were left without adult protection, single women (including widows), disabled people and aged who are deprived of the care of their families. Village volunteers popularly came to be known as Sneh Karmis were selected and tasked to carry out, supervise and monitor the whole emergency response in their villages. The process of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) was an attempt to ensure the protection and rights of those who were most at risk and those who were also most likely to be forgotten in the process of relief and rehabilitation.
Our interventions covered 127 worst hit villages from four blocks –Anjar, Bhachau, Bhuj and Rapar of Bhuj district. These villages were selected on the basis of the extent of damage, number of casualties and injuries, number of widows, significant Other Backward Caste, Dalits and Muslims populations.