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India's Disaster Management Challenges

India faces significant vulnerability to various disasters including floods, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, and cyclones, with 60% of its landmass prone to such events. The country has implemented several management systems, such as the IFLOWS for flood warnings and the India Tsunami Early Warning Center, while also addressing economic losses from disasters estimated at $87 billion. Community participation and capacity building initiatives are being integrated into disaster management strategies to enhance preparedness and resilience.

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India's Disaster Management Challenges

India faces significant vulnerability to various disasters including floods, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes, and cyclones, with 60% of its landmass prone to such events. The country has implemented several management systems, such as the IFLOWS for flood warnings and the India Tsunami Early Warning Center, while also addressing economic losses from disasters estimated at $87 billion. Community participation and capacity building initiatives are being integrated into disaster management strategies to enhance preparedness and resilience.

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Disaster India’s vulnerability Floods

Management - EQ : 60% landmass prone - IFLOWS- Mumbai : state of Art integrated flood warning system for mumbai
- Floods : 12% area prone Tsunami
- Drought : 70% area prone - India Tsunami early warning center : real time observation network of seismic station
- Tsunami/cyclone : 76% - INCOIS : GIS based 3D protocol on Tsunami warning to all vulnerable area
coastline area Earthquake
- Ind Quake : developed by National center for seismology; mobile app disseminates real
Global Climate risk Index,2021 time EQ info
(Germanwatch) - Sagar Vani : mobile app send alerts to user community
- Ind ranking (2021) - 7th most Cyclones
vulnerable - OD : national disaster capital of Ind prone to small and big cyclones
- Flood death : 1800 deaths and - Japan : coastal forest as barrier
1.8 mn people displacement Heat waves
- 11.8mn people affected by - Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation: heat action plan -> building heat shelters, ensuring
intense monsoon season availability of water
caused damage $10 bn Forest fires
- Bandhavgarh forest fires in MP
UN Report on Economic Losses - Real time forest fire alert : MODIS and SNPP-VIIRS
and Disaster Chemical and Industrial disasters
- Cost of disaster (Ind) : $87 bn - Pune chemical unit fire
- 4th in terms of Disaster related - Visakhapatnam Gas Leak
loss - Fukushima nuclear leak
- $10 bn every year (60% land - Baghjan Gas leak in Assam
prone) and (8.5% cyclone) - Beirut (Lebanon) chemical fertilizer blast
Landslide
IPCC report - KL : Iddukki
- 46% popl of world live in - MH : Raigad
vulnerable region in last 20 Building collapse
years - Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act(1888) : every building > 30 yrs must be inspected by
- Disaster related death: 1.3 mn qualified structural engineer every 10 yrs
- People affected due to disaster - NITI Aayog : Continuous quality certification
: 4.4 bn Cloudburst
- Cost of economy : $2tn - BHEL S-Band Doppler radars
- Ushahidi : open source platform for crisis mapping
Nuclear disaster
- Chernobyl disaster
- Mayapuri radiological accident (2010)
Glacial lake outburst flood
- Nanda devi
Droughts
- MP Bhagirath Krishakabhiyan
- AP online water dashboard
Awareness generation
- Disaster preparedness month in Delhi
- Chetna initiative Bihar : community involvement in preparedness and mitigation
Capacity building
- TN regional early warning systems : risks and vulnerability assessments
Institutionalization of Disaster management
Community participation
- Integration of DM in training programme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Jajpur Dist (OD)
Gender maintaining
- Puri (OD) : young women as master trainers to impart training on 1st aid techniques
- SHGs linking DM to development: Latur dist, MH
- ASHA workers as role models in Assam : They became members of Disaster
management teams
Convergence partnership
- GJ social forum : NGOs and CBOs working on multi sectoral issues
- Urban EQ vulnerability reduction project, Vijayawada- Municipal corporation + Tata group
Cultural
- Disaster management at Pedkai Mata Temple, Dhule

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