Friday 26 December 2014

Awareness and education needed on area-specific hazards - Tripurari Kumar

"Proper education and information on hazards related to their areas are critical for all communities." - Tripurari Kumar, New Delhi, India

1. We don't need to create any new parallel system but need to implement the structural framework in the existing DM act-2005 to all sphere of existing system. 

2. Types of disasters are area specific and need to be mapped accordingly and government should provide all information regarding hazardous areas online to the public domain. For example, Delhi is seismic IV zone and the zonation map should be one of the prime instrument while planning for urbanization or any development plan for the cities. Likewise the all sea banks should be mapped and the related information should be circulated to local public. 

3. Indian Ocean Tsunami is completing 10 years and nothing had happened in between. These kinds of disaster has high incubation period and it occurs when practically local public are unaware. The political motives always drive them to make settlements near vulnerable spots led to mass settlements in high hazardous zone so our focus should be to provide enough warnings or awareness so that if disaster will struck will cause minimal loss.

4. At last, we known children are our future and resources too, we need to educate them properly and provide all information related to their areas, how to escape from disaster, evacuation plan, preventive plan in school curriculum.


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