Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
http://www.geocities.com/mainaksworld/ All about disasters The website is on disaster management and has the views of a Mainak Mazumder, a professional with an environmental sciences background. He is also the founder of the website and has taken it upon himself to spread word on managing disasters, both natural and manmade. The …
Five southeast Asian countries have recently endorsed a joint plan of action to fight the haze caused by Indonesian forest fires. The haze was at its worse this season, leading to the closure of airports, offices and schools. It affected much of the southeast Asia for months until rains a …
A World Bank-funded flood control project in southern Pakistan was replete with design errors, violated several operational policies and directives and resulted into devastating flood disasters putting downstream people at risk, concluded a recent report by Inspection Panel, bank's own independent investigative body. The investigation was initiated by the panel …
• China plans to invest US $175 billion (more than 1.5 per cent of its national GDP) towards protecting the environment during its 11 th five-year plan. The money will be spent on water pollution control, improving air quality in cities, disposing of solid waste, harnessing soil erosion and improving …
Providing relief after a disaster like the December 2004 tsunami is a great challenge, especially in archipelagos far away from the mainland. But the administration of the Union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has just shown how to make effective relief even more difficult. Two items
July 26, 2005 has gone down as a day no Mumbaikar will forget. A record 994 mm (37.2 inches) of rain within 24 hours, widespread flooding and the loss of lives and property, the virtual shutdown of the
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Java in the early hours of May 27, 2006. More than 135,000 houses were destroyed and an estimated 647,000 people were displaced, according to reports from Associated Press. The quake was centred just off the Indian Ocean …
Overruling objections of groups representing Bhopal gas victims, the Supreme Court on May 2, 2006, sanctioned Rs 37.65 crore to the Bhopal Memorial Trust. The trust administers the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (bmhrc) and had demanded the money to ensure better functioning of this institute, set up specifically …
Orissa has a long history of cyclones. Devastation and death toll were very high during 1999 super cyclone. The response to the cyclone in India and from abroad was also tremendous. The objective of this paper is to assess the activities of the government and NGOs providing relief, rehabilitation and …
If the December floods in Chennai were a wakeup call, the hasty drive to clear encroachments is proof that its lessons haven't been learnt. The Cooum and Adyar rivers flooded their banks and entered nearby residential areas
A year after Sri Lanka's worst natural disaster, many victims of the tsunami languish in makeshift shelters while an inefficient government bureaucracy and the country's poor utilisation of foreign aid continues to compound the crisis. Experts reckon that at the current rate, it will take at least four years for …
After the deluge, it's usThe bustle's gone out of Tharangambadi. The once-prosperous Dutch-controlled port was before last year's tsunami a contented fishing village
http://www.focusweb.org North versus South With the privileged North calling the shots in global development policies, the view of South remains neglected. Keeping this in mind,
The main aim of this Policy is establishing principles and guidelines on various aspects of Disaster Management and making the people increasingly resilient to disaster. The focus is on reducing disaster risks and vulnerability through strengthening of government and non-government organizations, physical infrastructures and the capacities of the communities in …
The objectives of the Disaster Management Plan are to ensure that disaster management is organised to facilitate planning, preparedness, operational coordination and community participation.
The Disaster Management Act, 2005 has been enacted as the central Act to deal with the management of disasters. This act envisaged a three tier Disaster Management structure in India at National, States and District levels.
THE Union ministry of home affairs recently introduced the Disaster Management Bill (DMB) 2005 in the Rajya Sabha. The bill is being considered a major step in streamlining appropriate mitigation measures and better preparedness for disaster. The bill gives short shrift to issues relating to the participation of local bodies …
after rains, it is pouring committees, commissions and fact-finding teams in Mumbai: the Mithi River Development and Protection Agency, an eight member fact-finding team; a team lead by Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station (cwprs), another three member fact-finding committee; the Maharashtra Disaster Management Authority. These committees have almost …
After the Disaster Management Bill was introduced in parliament, field workers of the Ahmedabad, Gujarat based-All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (aidmi) sought opinions of victims of some recent calamities. People affected by the 1997 drought in north Gujarat, the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat's Kutch area, the 1998 cyclone in the …
