Issue: June 2009
  Earthquake Safe Buildings
  Increment years, a number of earthquakes have caused thousands of deaths and huge economic losses in India. Earthquakes of comparable size in USA...
  From Risk to Resilience
  Disasters are tragic interruptions to the development process, consuming millions of unlived lives and precious infrastructure. Development infr...
  Post-Disaster Housing Assistance in India
  The Available data on the housing in India suggests two glaring facts: A. there is a serious shortage of housing in the country, and b. the qual...
  Need for Reassessment
  Many Departments working over the issue of water, irrigation and floods have changed their names in the recent past. thus, department of Irrigat...
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Battered, wounded and scarred, India has barely had time in the last few decades, to rise from one disaster before being struck down by another. The Latur earthquake in 1993, Orissa super cyclone in 1999, followed in quick succession by the Bhuj earthquake, the tsunami, the earthquake in Kashmir, the flooding of Mumbai city, unprecedented rains and floods in parts of Gujarat and Maharashtra, and the massive de...

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Paradigm Shift in Managing Disaster

Natural and manmade disasters often result in loss of lives, cause injury to people, and l e ad to los s of livelihoods and damage and destruction of property, assets and infrastructure. Disasters worsen the risk and exposure of vulnerable communities and lead to psycho-social stress and trauma among the disaster-prone and disaster-affected communities. In the case of recurring disasters like floods, the disaster-prone communi t i e s of t en be come victims of a crisis of confidence as their coping strategies are often overwhelmed, survival threatened and normal life adversely affected for several months repeatedly. Children, infants, the elderly and the physically and mentally cha l l enged peopl e be come more vulnerable to neglect and deprivation in the event of sudden outbreak of disasters, especially when the displaced communities are forced to stay in temporary relief camps.

Each year, natural disasters result in thousands of deaths, injuries an ...

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