Government of India have initiated the Disaster Risk Management process in the year 2003 before the enactment of the Disaster Management Act 2005. With the Disaster Management Act, 2005..............
As per the Indian Constitution, access to education is a fundamental right of each child of the country as enshrined in the Right to Education Act (2009). The Government of India supported NDMA in implementation of National School Safety Program launched in 2011 in order to ensure safety of the school and the children..............
The pandemic Covid-19 has spread over whole world and compelled the human society to maintain social distancing. It has significantly disrupted the education sector which is a critical determinant of a country’s economic future. According to the UNESCO report, it had affected more than 90% of total world’s student population during mid April 2020 which is now reduced to nearly 67% during June 2020.............
It is indeed an honor to talk on Hon’ble PM ten point agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction especially in view of agenda 3 “Encourage greater involvement and leadership of Women in Disaster Risk Reduction”. We all are aware that globally the number of disasters has doubled since the 1980s............
JAs per a research conducted by UNESCO across the India, the last two academic years have witnessed some unfortunate disruptions. From extreme weather event or pollution forced a loss of 120 days across states such as Delhi, Puducherry, Punjab and West Bengal...........
Jammu and Kashmir has faced unprecedented floods of the century in 2014. Incessant rains in the first week of September led to massive floods in state. The Jhelum River and its tributaries were in spate and caused havoc and huge damages to various districts of Kashmir Valley...........
After being hit by a disaster, the most important thing which is of most value is how we react to it ? what is the procedure we are following to recover from it? As natural calamities can't be prevented ,we can only try to mitigate it but strategically thinking of the way to recover from it after being affected can be thought of..........
Disaster management service, this word seems to be very common, but isn’t it easy to do such kind of services.So now the question arises why we need such kind of services? We need this kind of services to manipulate various disasters.........
Disasters kill and injure millions of animals across the globe each year. The destruction of land and natural habitats affects the food chain because many species are unable to hunt.........
निराश हो मन, और हो तलाश, सुकून की, अरसा हुए खुद को, हँसते हुए, न पाया हो जब,nमन में हो बेचैनी, और हो संदेह का जलजला, और, जब खुद से खुद को, प्रश्नों के उत्तर न मिलें, चलो चलें उस ओर, जहाँ से रौशनी की किरण झांकती हो.........
On January 26th, 2001, an extremely devastating earthquake of Magnitude 7.7 Mw (USGS) occurred in Gujarat. This earthquake shook not only Gujarat govt but Government of India too. The effect of the earthquake was felt throughout the Indian sub-continent. Over 7,000 villages in 19 districts were affected either severely or moderately........
If most of the office-related tasks rely on computer systems, it is essential for you to opt for a disaster recovery plan. This is because; if you do not consider about options related to backup and data recovery timely, you remain at a big risk..........
When ever an earthquake strike , it followed by many disasters which made it more destructive. For example earthquake followed by flood, earthquake followed by fire etc. similarly all of disaster has their followed by disaster.........
Workplace emergencies may take place at any time in the organization. For this, an organization should always remain prepare to manage the impact of any emergencies if ever happening at work place. Stay prepares to it properly and manages safety to a huge extent........
Disaster not only causes loss of life, damages to environment and properties, but has immediate and progressive impact on animals as well, resulting in animal deaths, suffering and economic losses......
As we are aware, among the South Asian countries, India is the most vulnerable country to disasters due to its diverse and vulnerable geo-climatic physicality. Further, dependency of the local community and the economy on agro based activities, monsoon and due to some other factors like lack of awareness, illiteracy, poverty prevalent in our society......
Human race is on the verge of extinct? Is that so? Is it a big statement or we really are leading ourselves towards that direction? Scarce natural resources, cut-throat competition, increasing population, changing climates, man-man conflict, man-animal conflict and ever depleting human values!......
Sustainable urban infrastructure expands on the concept of urban infrastructure by adding the sustainability element with the expectation of improved and more sustained urban development......
There are a lot of different types of disasters which can hit us anytime. Hence, we need to know how to protect ourselves from these disasters. One such place where we need to use all the possible measures to avoid these disasters is the schools......
Disaster management is something so important that it must be taught to every single person, so that they can save at least themselves at the time of the disaster. These disasters can be natural disasters or even the man-made disasters which are caused due to a mistake made by us.....
A disaster can happen anywhere and anytime. It is our responsibility that we should always be ready to face any sort of disaster. We should always be prepared for the worst case scenarios and hence stay safe in all such conditions. Disasters can be of many types. ....
Life is very uncertain. No one knows what is going to happen in the next moment. It just takes a second for a disaster to occur. We never know that when there would be a situation of an emergency. But when such time comes, a lot of people are not able to survive that because of the lack of knowledge and resources that are required to face that emergency. ....
The first step required to take in the direction of curbing destruction caused by disaster is to be aware of the risks and means to handle the same. It is important to understand the quantum of disaster which can follow as a result of such problems. Ignorance has been playing a dominant factor for causing huge loss of life and property due to disasters.....
A Heart Touching Experience of Awareness to the Children with Special Abilities at Amar Jyoti School
Disasters are perhaps the worst thing to happen in the Universe which results to tremendous loss to Lives and Wealth. What is the Solution? As no one can control disasters the only way to mitigate the post effects of disasters is “To be Prepared”....
If most of the office-related tasks rely on computer systems, it is essential for you to opt for a disaster recovery plan. This is because; if you do not consider about options related to backup and data recovery timely, you remain at a big risk....
Situational awareness is a simple and easy concept. However, many people usually skip it or make it a complicated one. Initially, this was a military term to refer the operational status of a pilot and knowledge related to immediate threats....
Today, schools all over the nation are often facing varieties of growing and ongoing threats, which include drugs, violence, natural disasters, criminal activities and terrorism. Because of this, it has become a prime responsibility of any school authority to make the institution, students and its faculty members fully prepared to deal with any unpleasant event, along with imparting quality education to students.....
World over threat of active shootings has been increased many folds. In this type of attack, attacker come armed with automatic gun sometime with different sizes of guns and open fire on innocent public gatherings. It is noted that schools are easy target. Because schools have natural gathering of students. Attacker gets good media coverage and absolutely zero resistance from kids and teachers. This is new kind of threats to schools. World has good number of examples of such attack.....
Placing heavy demand for reconstruction and rehabilitation, disaster always destroys the decades of human efforts and investment towards development. One of the most vulnerable sections to be hit by these disasters are children unskilled and unaware of fact what to do in such conditions. There are ample examples like Gujarat Earthquake 2001 where 971 children lost its lives, fire incident at DAV School in Dabwali, Sirsa, Haryana in 1995 during an annual function took the lives of 540 people 170 of them were schoolchildren. Similarly, the incident happened in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu at in 2004 which took 93 lives which is enough to ascertain the fact that it is utmost importance that every school must have a sound Emergency Response Mechanism in place in order to deal effectively with the natural and human induced disasters (such as earthquake, fire, stampede, terror attack and gas leak etc.)...
Globally, it is evident as there have been major casualties to innocent school children because of the earthquakes and school building collapses. On Dec 7, 1988 in Armenia thousands of school children killed including 400 at an elementary school in Dzhrashen which collapsed, on May 10, 1997; 110 students killed at Ardakul, Iran in Primary school collapsed. In 1999, the Chi-Chi Earthquake completely destroyed 43 Taiwan schools in the Nantou and Taichung area and a total of 700 schools nationwide were damaged. In the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake the rate of child mortality was substantial with the death of 19,000 students and the total destruction of about 7000 schools...
Contingency planning refers to designing key management policies, procedures and processes, which effectively resort or maintain the essential business operations. The preparation of disaster contingency plan in Delhi acts as an important component of preparedness process. It includes key business practices combined with plans to achieve disaster recovery at a faster rate....