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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Natural Holocaust in Uttarakhand...is disaster response adequate in our country???

Hello all,Uttarakhand is passing through worst time phase...Thousands of innocent people have died and millions of people are either missing or fighting for survival..It is a "Natural Holocaust".....They don't have food,drinking water,medicines and blankets to survive in this difficult time..Relief material such as Bottle Milk,Drinking water,Glucose,Biscuits,etc is required but despite the best effort, the rescue operation is not at desired level....When I visited ADM,Dehradun office, he was utterly confused and helpless to do anything...It was due to several reasons...There was lack of co-ordination between Disaster management authority,district administration,army and air force....every organisation is working pararllely...There is no well though out rescue plan as it should be post Tsunami period when National Disaster management authority was created...The first most thing is to restore communication channel as during such disaster, communication channels gets blocked....it needs to be restored to carry out rescue operation smoothly....today, in Uttarakhand, there is no concrete plan in restoring communication channels...there must be alternative satellite phones with rescue teams.
Besides, in pilgrimage centers which are quite difficult place such as mountains, there has to be some permit system so that total count of the people along with their names and photographs must be there....in this way, we can have realistic count on number of casualty and rescue mission...Along with it, there is a need to have check on unauthorised construction activity in such areas...During rescue operation also, there is a need to continuously update people about the efforts made...for this there has to be a central portal which should provide all the information at one place...while in uttarakhand, information is being dissipated from several sources at several portals...it leads to chaos and uncertainty....
I pray to God for the speedy recovery and smooth rescue mission in Uttarakhand...May all the people survive this tragedy...Keep on blogging...

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