Disaster Management: Roles Of Disasters In Natural Disaster In India

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT : ROLE OF INDIAN ARMED FORCES IN DEALING WITH DISASTERS IN COASTAL REGIONS OF INDIA

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Introduction
1. A natural disaster is an event of nature, which causes sudden disruption to the normal life of a society and causes damage to property and lives to such an extent, that normal social and economic mechanisms, available to the society, are inadequate to restore normalcy. India has faced a number of disasters in recent years in the form of earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones and other oceanic disasters. Floods and coastal disasters have been the most prominent and recurring features in recent past whether they were floods in Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Mumbai and Chennai, the Tsunami in 2004 or the recent cyclone Hudhud.
2. These disasters have led to tremendous loss of life, property and infrastructure. After grappling with such disasters for a long time in an unorganised manner, primarily using services of Indian Armed forces, India finally passed the National Disaster Management Act in 2005.
3. India has 7,516 kilometer long coastline, of which approx 5,700 kilometer is prone to cyclones, tsunamis and other disasters emanating from the sea/ ocean.
During the last 50 years, India has lost about 30,000 lives just to
The literature on disaster management in India, by and large focuses on case studies of specific disaster events and types. Much has been written and deliberated on disaster management in various forms of literature like books, internet, journals, articles and papers. However, most of the research has been focused either towards earthquakes or floods and only limited research on coastal disasters and the role of armed forces in dealing with such crisis has been carried out yet. Limited published material on the subject is available at DSSC, hence majority of the references are being made from the internet sites which hold a vast amount of information. Study material is being collected from the following

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