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Institutional Vulnerability in Handling Disaster

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The recent Mumbai floods, now Kerala, Karnataka and children dying in Muzaffarpur raises questions that is it lack of resources or preparedness or institutional vulnerability that has led to loss of lives in all these places. M....

September 13, 2019 Dealing with calamities , Disaster management institutions , Commentary , National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management

Story of the Chennai Flood Disaster of December 2015

Anjana Singhwi

An Eyewitness Account Recently I returned to India from the United States of America after completing my studies at the Parsons School of Design. Divinity brought me face to face with the Chennai flood disaster, which my fourth encounter....

December 29, 2015 Chennai Flood , Disaster , Disaster Management

Putting an end to Pedestrian approach to Landslide Disaster Mitigation in India
R. K. Bhandari

The Indian calendar of Landslide disasters is literally dotted with catastrophic events, most of which, by hindsight, look self imposed and probably avoidable. If landslides could plead their cases in the courts of law, a great majority of them will ....

July 16, 2015 Technological and Scientific Studies , Disaster Management

Urgent Need for Steps to Make Nathu La Route to Kailash Mansarovar Safe for Pilgrims
R. K. Bhandari

India and China had signed a bilateral agreement on September 18 this year providing for conducting the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through Nathu La in Sikkim Himalayas in addition to the existing Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand. Addressing the media after....

December 02, 2014 Disaster Management , National Security and Strategic Studies

Uttarakhand Disaster: A Legacy of Environmental Destruction
Dr M N Buch (late)

June 2013 has been a month of catastrophe, trials and suffering in the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand. This is the region known as Devbhoomi, or the abode of the Gods, sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs alike. The source of the most sacred river....

July 17, 2013 Disaster Management , National Security and Strategic Studies

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Need for Preparedness, Accountability
Sqn Ldr (Retd). S.D. MITROO

There is this apocryphal story of how three men reacted on seeing a pedestrian ahead of them falling into a ditch. While the one immediately following the victim too fell into the ditch, the second person avoided the pothole saving himself whereas th....

July 12, 2013 Disaster Management , Energy Security

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