Question.
Prepare a work plan for disaster management for any one state of India. ( UPPSC, 2020, 15 Marks)
Answer.
According to the Disaster Management Act 2005, a disaster is a serious catastrophic event in any area resulting in substantial loss of human life and also considerable destruction of property and environment which may be natural or man-made, and it is beyond the ability of communities of the disaster affected areas to compete.
Following are the action plans for disaster management for Uttar Pradesh:
We know that there is a universally accepted plan for disaster management which has four phases as follows:
- Mitigation [prevention and risk reduction]
- Preparation
- response
- recovery
Non-ambiguous responsibility should be fixed in the above four-stage.
The main focus should be on mitigation, and avoidance of disaster in the following ways:
- The cause, preparation, action should be analyzed for various disasters which have already occurred.
- For example, the following disasters have occurred in Uttar Pradesh,
- 1888: Moradabad Hailstorms
- 1954, 2013: Prayag Raj Kumbh Mela Stampede
- 2012, 2013: Floods in northern India
- covid-19 pandemic
- Mapping of the future disaster in Uttar Pradesh
- Using disaster resistance and mitigation technologies and implementing them within short, medium, and long-term time frames.
- Incorporate risk reduction planning into outgoing and future development projects
- Reducing disaster risk in existing infrastructure
- To empower the local population against the disaster that may happen there.
- Ensuring usability of more than one airport in each district, across the state
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