Current status of India in Disaster Management:
Today, India’s Disaster Programme is renowned in resources, planning, and execution in the entire world. During the disaster, when the UEA and Maldives offered help to the Indian government, our Government politely refused. It is because we are currently leading in the best management of disasters in the world.
Prior to 1994, all the nations followed the traditional model to manage disasters which had many loopholes because it was not comprehensive in nature. But after the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction by the UN, Yokohama Declaration on Disaster Management in 1994 was adopted.
It transformed the entire face of disaster management. Two steps were introduced in Yokohama
Declaration:
1) Creation of Disaster Management Cycle: It covers the pre-disaster and post-disaster phases and provides an integrated approach to combat the consequences of the disaster.
2) Disaster Risk Reduction: It covers a set of guidelines and information based on which different countries have based their policies and plans on disasters.
How is a hazard different from a disaster?
Any threatful event that happens in the environment either natural or man-made is a hazard. But when this hazard causes significant damage to the community in terms of human life, property, and economic and environmental loss, it is called a disaster.
For example, when an earthquake comes in the remotest part of the desert where there are no inhabitants and no infrastructure then, it is called a hazard and not a disaster.
Impact of Disaster:
Disasters have a disproportionate impact on different countries and different types of populations. Developing and underdeveloped countries suffer more as compared to developed countries. Also, disasters can have a much greater impact on vulnerable sections of society like the elderly, women, children, the disabled, minorities, and the poor
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