In September 2014, continuous unprecedented heavy rainfall had caused Jhelum, Chenab and Tawi rivers and their tributaries to flow above the danger mark. They had flooded the catchment...
In November and December 2015, the annual North-East monsoon generated heavy rainfall in south India causing floods along the Coromandel Coast in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry....
Kosi River is known as Bihar’s sorrow. Almost every year, the river is subject to floods affecting around 20 thousand km² area of fertile lands in Bihar. During...
Floods are most common natural disasters in India and the country is one of the highest flood prone countries around the world. As per the National Flood Commission...
In terms of the public awareness about impending floods, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones etc., India has achieved widespread but low levels of scattered mixed results. The important activities taken...
India’s Himalayan region is geologically very active and sensitive. In this region, every year, one or other types of disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, forest fires etc....
Tsunami Early Warning Centre is a part of Indian Nation Centre For Ocean Information Services (INCOIS). INCOIS has a data warehouse of ocean related information gathered from various...
Earth System Science Organisation (ESSO) is a virtual organisation set up by Ministry of Earth Sciences GOI in 2007 and it is the executive arm of MoES. It...
The importance of timely disaster warning in mitigating negative impacts can never be underestimated. Although damage to property cannot be avoided, some of the developed countries have been...
According to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR), there are several key parties that play major roles in the disaster management process. These include communities,...
The Disaster Management Act, 2005 has been enacted as the central Act to deal with the management of disasters. This act envisaged a three tier Disaster Management structure...
United Nations had declared 1990s as Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction. It called upon nations to formulate national disaster-mitigation programmes, as well as economic, land use and insurance...
