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21 January 2015

Managing risks for sustainable development

'Mounting natural and technological disasters and spiraling economic losses due to disasters in every part of the world, both developing and developed, brought home the realization that risks of disasters pose one of the greatest threats to sustainable development'...

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11 September 2012

India: Disaster management project in Andhra Pradesh soon

Work pertaining to the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in Andhra Pradesh will commence by the last week of December and the tender process is expected to be completed by last week of September...

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13 April 2012

India: City well-equipped to tackle natural disaster?

'Japanese earthquakes have taught us the risk of fire that a city can face after an earthquake. My suggestion is that people have to be trained towards a situation like that,' said Prof R N Iyengar, Director of Centre for Disaster Mitigation at Jain University...

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6 February 2012

India: Over 700 students take part in painting competition

Organised by the Disaster Management Authority, a painting competition gathered more than 700 students on the topic 'nature' for children under the middle school category and 'natural calamity' for high school and higher secondary section...

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31 January 2012

India: Disaster risk reduction training for elderly

'The training programme aims to create awareness regarding the need for pre-planned action to reduce the risk of disasters and also the ways and means to reduce the risk'...

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19 January 2012

India: Preparedness in the best way to reduce impact of disasters

'Creating awareness and involving everyone will help to minimize the loss of lives and reduce the impact of disasters,'said Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam, India, emphasizing the need for involving teachers and NGO's in the disaster management preparedness...

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17 January 2012

India: Chemical disasters waiting to happen

Kochi, one of the major industrial belts, is vulnerable to chemical disasters. 'Prevention is the primary step and for that we need to conduct regular checks and inspections. But, we don't have a laboratory with required equipment'...

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3 January 2012

India: Floods - 'City was ill-prepared'

'The flash floods were an eye-opener for us...We should be better prepared to face a similar situation in future,' said District Collector K N Satheesh. SDMA will prepare a detailed plan to manage similar situations in future...