Warning system.

I remember there was a warning issued for a flood possibility in Delhi and the adjoining areas due to water released from upstream catchments area, lot of people along with there belonging were evacuated and relocated but by God’s grace no untoward happened.

There are severe floods in Andra, Karnataka and Goa and hundreds of causalities and millions rupees damage has been reported. If a warning was issued for capital why this warning couldn’t got initiated for the affected states? The state government could have better anticipated and prepared for systematic release of waters based on the daily increase of water level in the respective reservoirs and this situation could have been avoided.

In Andhra Pradesh, at least 37 people have died in the floods, and lakhs are in relief camps across the state.The death toll is expected to be higher as the administration currently doesn't have spare officials to count the dead. Thousands are reported missing, lakhs are still stranded. Overall, at least 18 lakh people in nearly 400 villages of Andhra Pradesh have been affected by the floods. 180 villages in Kurnool, 89 in Mahbubnagar, 100 in Guntur and 22 in Nalgonda are in bad shape due to the flood waters.

In karnataka in the last 24 hours, the number of dead in the Karnataka flood havoc has gone up from 130 to 170.Bijapur, Bagalkote, Raichur, Koppal and Gulbarga districts remain the worst affected. In Bijapur alone, more than 17 villages are marooned and over 10,000 people have been left homeless.

Disaster management or Recovery

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Management or Recovery

The term management is generally used when we talk something about to happen in future and the planning related to it. Take example of Project management, program management or event management. There are some specific individual or group of individuals who take the lead in this sort of management and are called managers.

Simultaneously you might have also heard of “Disaster Management Plan” or “disaster management”. But mind you according to the definition of management or what we call as management is related to future activities that are yet to happen and whom we want to execute in a prudent way. Is the word “disaster management” is an appropriate word because, I believe nobody wants to manage the disaster, so the word “disaster management” has to be rewritten as “disaster recovery” Because whenever there is a disaster we want to recover from it, we do not want to manage it.

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