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 …
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 …
The Disaster Management Bill has been introduced in the Parliament. The bill's preamble notes that, "The government has decided to enact a law on disaster management to provide for requisite institutional mechanisms for
gujarat has faced damages worth Rs 8,000 crore in the recent flash floods, according to a preliminary assessment; the figure is expected to rise further as more reports come in. Continuous heavy rains lashed the state in the last week of June 2005. The state government conveniently blamed nature, getting …
India being mainly an agricultural country the economy and further its growth purely depends on the vagaries of the weather and in particular the extreme weather events. The information on extreme weather events lie scattered in the scientific and technical papers and in the research work of many authors and …
Tropical cyclones—variously defined as hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones—regularly impact human populations and periodically produce devastating weather-related natural disasters. The epidemiology of tropical cyclones is fundamentally determined by the physical forces of massive cyclonic systems intersecting with patterns of human behavior. The destructive forces of cyclonic winds, inundating rains, and storm …
disaster management bill: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil recently introduced the Disaster Management Bill, 2005 in the Rajya Sabha. It is considered a major step towards streamlining mitigation measures and response to disasters faced by the country. The bill's salient features include setting up a three-tier structure comprising a national …
M/s. Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (SIIL), a public limited company, is the flagship company of the Sterlite Group. The proposed project will bring an investment of Rs. 4500 crores to the state of Orissa where the per capita income is about half of the national level. The Lanjigarh bauxite deposit …
A succession of severe natural disasters has wreaked havoc in the poverty-ridden state of Orissa. First the state experienced a severe flood in the august, 1999 affecting six coastal blocks. Next came the severe cyclonic storm on 17-18th October 1999, which hit the coastal district causing widespread and unprecedented damages …
District hospital, Nagapattinam is just two kilometres (km) from the Bay of Bengal. On December 26, 2004, when the tsunami struck, the hospital's paediatric ward was swept away; there were no survivors. This hospital was our first call as volunteers in relief operations coordinated by the Chennai-based non-governmental organisation, Suyam: …
the battle seems lost even before it has begun. Sri Lanka, shaken by the recent tsunami disaster, is scrambling to put together an effective disaster management system. But lack of efficient institutions, inept bureaucracy and frequent political changes may lead all its efforts to a naught, experts warn. After all, …
At 6.29 am, on the morning of December 26, 2004 an undersea earthquake erupts in Sumatra, triggering off tidal waves called tsunami. A minute later, the India Meteorological Department (imd) gets the news. In 15 minutes, imd tracks the tsunami to the Indonesian coastline. But they make no attempt to …
The monitoring and management of the Indian coastline has come under sharp focus after the tsunami disaster. There is now a strong demand to implement the Coastal Regulatory Zone (crz) notification of 1991. Let us look at why protecting coastal ecology is so critical. Natural protectors, such as sand dunes …
The Indian ocean covers 73,556,000 sq km, or 20 per cent of the world’s surface. Aspects like oceanography, geophysical phenomena, undersea exploration and economic and military uses have a bearing on ocean behaviour. How cognisant are our experts with this large water body? Other than isolated research programmes associated with …
