Paradigm Shift: Reactive Relief to Proactive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

What are Tsunamis? How and where are they formed? What are their consequences? Explain with examples.

Comment on the resource potentials of the long coastline of India and Resources & highlight the status of natural hazard preparedness in these areas.

How important are vulnerability and risk assessment for pre-disaster management. As an administrator ,what are key areas that you would focus in a disaster management Drought has been recognised as a disaster in view of its party

The frequency of urban floods due to high intensity rainfall is increasing over the years. Discussing the reasons for urban floods. highlight the mechanisms for preparedness to reduce the risk during such events.

With reference to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) guidelines, discuss the measures to be adopted to mitigate the impact of the recent incidents of cloudbursts in many places of Uttarakhand.

Disaster preparedness is the first step in any disaster management process. Explain how hazard zonation mapping will help in disaster Hazard Zonation mitigation in the case of landslides.

Discuss the recent measures initiated in disaster management by the Government of India departing from the earlier reactive approach.

Dam failures are always catastrophic, especially on the downstream side, resulting in a colossal loss of life and property. Analyse the various causes of dam failures. Give two examples of large dam failures.

Suppose the Government of India is thinking of constructing a dam in a mountain valley bounded by forests and inhabited by Development vs ethnic communities. What rational policy should it resort to in Tribal Displacement dealing with unforeseen contingencies ?

makes the system more efficient. What is wrong in adopting such practices? Critically analyze the above viewpoints. On the basis of this analysis, what will be your advice to your friend? A building permitted for three floors, while being extended illegally to 6 floors by a builder, collapses. As a consequence, a number of innocent labourers including women and children died. These labourers are migrants of different places. The government immediately announced cash relief to the aggrieved families and arrested the builder. Give reasons for such incidents taking place across the country. Suggest measures to prevent their occurrence. In recent times, there has been an increasing concern in India to