DISASTER MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF UTTRAKHAND
Dr. M. N. Zubairi
Faculty of Commerce & Business Management
Ranchi University , Ranchi.
Nazia Abbas Abidi
Faculty of Business Management ,Dr. Zakir Hussain Institute, Ranchi
Abstract
Every one would be agree that disaster can ruined the life of anyone or demolish the city or the whole geographical area only in a few seconds. We people can’t fully stop these natural disasters but by doing some pre disaster planning only can reduce the loss of ruination that was happened in Uttrakhand. We people feel unassisted in front of environment at the time of natural disaster. For handling these types of critical situations in country as well as state district have best disaster management team who can follow up each and every steps regularly that are given regarding the disasters.
Keywords:- National Disaster Management Authority, Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre, State Disaster Management Authority.
Introduction
A disaster is a catastrophe , mishap , calamity or grave occurrence from natural or man made causes , which is beyond the copying capacity of affected community and for this there is a management that is called Disaster Management . Every one in this globe should be aware of the word disaster management which we called Emergency Management. As every one knows that in this whole world no country is immune by this disaster. It can affect the whole survival of any individual that means it can interrupt anybody’s whole life. Disasters are mainly of four types:-
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Natural Disasters:- These disasters includes floods ,hurricanes ,earthquakes and volcano eruption that can have immediate affect on human health as well as secondary affect from flood causing land slides , earthquakes results in fires , tsunami results in widespread flooding and typhoons sinking ferries.
Environmental Emergencies:- These emergency include technological or industrial accidents that include hazardous material and occur where these material are used , produced or transported.
Complex Emergencies:- These emergencies involve a breakdown of authority such as looting and attack . This emergency occurs mainly at the time of war.
Pandemic Emergencies:- This is a type of emergency that occur when a sudden type of contagenious disease occurs that affects not only health but services also.
Local organizations , Regional organization, National organization and a lot of International organizations are involved in mounting to Disasters. Each will have preparing a lot of Disaster Management programs as well as plans. But when these organizations does not work properly the result of this was like Uttrakhand disaster.
As we have seen that the scene of natural disaster was too much weird on the Holy land of Kedarnath when the cloud was bursted. In fact Uttrakhand and its related areas received a heavy rainfall , that was more than the benchmark during a normal monsoon. Ruination and death was coming in the form of flowing water. This natural disaster has lost a lot of local life as well as those devotees who went Kedarnath for their pilgrimage. In a few seconds this rain make all devotees dead and on this holy land thousands of dead body , has made a graveyard. Those people who are surviving in that graveyard are struggling for their life. By seeing this dangerous scene of environment we people should take lesson , because due to the carelessness of human being the disastrous capacity of environment increases. Its the century’s biggest disaster for India. There was a havoc of stormy rain and the breaking of mountain in Uttrakhand and its related areas; everywhere death and ruin were splitted. Devotees, tourists as well as local people all are captured by this disaster. This was really the original face of “Shiva- Tandava- Stotram” that was environment playing. As the All India Meteorological Department (IMD) of Dehradun regional centre has warned before time that is on 13th June 2013 that there will be a heavy rain in next 48 to 72 hours on the upper part of Uttrakhand. But the Disaster Management Agencies did not taken that warning seriously, and the result was in front of everyone ruination in the form of stormy water.
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Before that the warning was already given in October, 2012 Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (DMCC) of Uttrakhand send a report of 48 pages and the topic of that report was “ Testing of Assay Ganga Valley After August 2012, Cotangent flood and land sliding.” There was also a request to stop these types of disasters in that report and a warning for a big disaster in near future. But no precautionary steps were taken by management to prevent from these types of natural disasters. As the Vice Chairman of Natural Disaster Management Authority had rejected the news which was flashed in on 13th June 2013 , through Meteorological Department he says that it was a general news, he said that in that news there was nothing as special so the management become active. NDMA work is totally for the disaster , but at the time of Uttrakhand disaster its work was too much slow , as the agency has imported twenty five satellite phones after the nine days of that disaster from Hong –Kong and that was due to when Chairman of NDMA interrupted in that case. This NDMA was build in after 2004 Tsunami so that the losses that arises due to disaster will be prevented in future.
Materials and Methods:- For the purpose of depth study the contents have been taken from relevant articles, journals and websites. Both primary as well as secondary sources have been taken.
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