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CRISIS MAAGEMET DURIG DISASTERSAD ATURAL CALAMITIESCHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION1. The response to natural disasters has evolved over a period of time the worldover. From the purely humanitarian urge to offer help and relief to the victims, the re-sponse to the challenges of disasters has come to address itself to preparedness tomitigate their impact and reduce their occurrence to sustain development effort. Indiais not an exception to this changing scenario. The philanthropy and the munificence of the rich are still evident in offering humanitarian assistance, but this is a small part of the total relief effort. The dynamics of voluntary action does contribute to the buildingup of resilience of disaster prone societies but these efforts are isolated and still themajor part of this task rests on the governmental interventions.2. Although the man has made tremendous technological progress in his rela-tively brief existence on earth, he is still virtually helpless against vagaries of nature. Natu-ral disasters such as flood, cyclones, earthquakes ravage man’s domain at will andcause much loss to life and property. In addition to natural disasters, man has con-trived to add to his miseries by waging wars and creating other manmade disasters.3. Disaster relief has become a major theme of our times. The advancement incommunications has brought to us much more rapidly and vividly the untold miseries
 
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and dissolution suffered by human beings in the wake of cataclysmic events. As per WHO data, there has been marked increase in disaster situation over the years
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. Thenumber of disasters between 1900 to 1960 totalled 4098 whereas in much shorter of 30 years from 1962 to 1989 the number was 3380. Rightly so, the UN has declared1990 as the international decade of natural disaster reduction (IDNDR), to enhancedisaster management capabilities all over the world.
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Padmanabhan B. S.- Coping with Natural Disasters. Hindu 20 May 91.
 
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 CHAPTER II
METHODOLOGY
Hypothesis
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India comprises an area of 32,87,263 sq. km. It extends from snow coveredHimalayas to tropical rain forest of the south. Bounded by the great Himalayas in thenorth, it stretches southwards and at tropic of cancer, it tapers off into the IndianOcean between the Bay of Bengal on the east and Arabian sea on the west. Lying en-tirely in the northern hemisphere, it covers 29 longitudes and 31 latitudes and hascoastline of 7500 km. India’s physical geography and climate, pattern of rainfall makeit prone to a variety of natural disasters such as floods, storms cyclones and earth-quakes. The population and the lack of technological safeguards in its developing in-dustry, make it vulnerable to a variety of man made disasters e.g. Bhopal gas tragedy,Industrial and domestic fires, large number of railway mishaps, epidemics etc.
Statement of the Problem
2. This paper examines the process of Disaster Management : its structure in In-dia and recommendations.
Justification for the Study
3. The loss of human lives and physical assets caused by natural calamities areassuming staggering proportions. However, India’s march towards a national policyfor disaster management is surprisingly slow and direction less. The devastating cy-
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