The recent floods in Bihar and Assam have shown us the need of dedicated disaster management organization. The ongoing relief work are carried out by Indian army,air force and navy and coast guard teams and other paramilitary organisations.This relief work are poorly managed, and is improperly conducted. Time has come that we all realized we need a central body like rescue 911 and federal emergency management agency of USA.
Hurricane Katrina and Gustav, which affected Florida and Louisiana respectively saw very well coordinated effort in rescue and relief work. This works are carried out with surgical precision and was very well managed. While if we compared this with our own case we will find out that in Bihar and Assam, relief works are not coordinated at all. Army and Paramilitary forces are doing a good job. However the relief work are still not properly implemented because of lack of planning, human resource management and lack of proper resources like Inflatable Boats, Medicines, Blankets , Food items and Chlorine tablets. Every time a natural calamity happens in our country we always see poorly conducted relief and after every disaster we felt that we need a proper centralized and autonomous body but no work is going on in this regard however there is one disaster management body present in India also but it exists only in mere paper form. In the coming time we are going to see many more disasters in future as our earth's environment is changing and we are going to see many more disasters, we only need to prepare ourselves.
Saurabh Das
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