What is more painful than the disasters that destroy everything is the lack of proper management to handle the aftermath. What can bring hope is in itself hopeless and raises real alarm bells, say ratan lal bhagat & niharika patra
The excessive misusage of natural resources and the mounting burden that have destroyed the ecological balance have made natural calamities inevitable. But timely preparedness and preventive approach for both natural and man made disasters can definitely mitigate the damage to manageable limits.
Not that India does not have a system. The successive governments and policy makers did formulate many bodies to look after disaster management. From the enactment of Disaster Management Act, 2005 to setting up the National Disaster Management Authority to coming up with the National Institutes of Disaster Management (NIDM) along with various states’ Disaster Management Cells. But these so called saviours at the time of distress have proven to be more of paper puppets than anything else. Whether it was the Bengal famine, Orissa Super Cyclone, Latur earthquake, Bhopal gas tragedy, Andhra cyclone, Bhuj earthquake, tsunami or the recurring floods in Bihar (Koshi in 2008), terrorists attacks in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore or the most recent spread of the epidemic swine flu virus and the current havoc causing floods down south, India has always been found wanting and under-prepared. The quality of Indian infrastructure has also proved to be a big hurdle. The loss of NH-7 to flood waters is a shame and the same can happen again unless the quality of assets in India improves.
“We are prepared to tackle any situation but when there is a huge deviation from the expected occurrence all the planning goes for a toss. For example the floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had deviated more than 600% thus one can do very little in such disasters,” defends Dr. Santosh Kumar, Professor at NIDM. The fact also remains that while the media has shown disaster in a crude manner, what has occured post any such kind of unsuspected happenings have never made headlines but have been poorly and shabbily covered, just for the sake of doing so.
The excessive misusage of natural resources and the mounting burden that have destroyed the ecological balance have made natural calamities inevitable. But timely preparedness and preventive approach for both natural and man made disasters can definitely mitigate the damage to manageable limits.
Not that India does not have a system. The successive governments and policy makers did formulate many bodies to look after disaster management. From the enactment of Disaster Management Act, 2005 to setting up the National Disaster Management Authority to coming up with the National Institutes of Disaster Management (NIDM) along with various states’ Disaster Management Cells. But these so called saviours at the time of distress have proven to be more of paper puppets than anything else. Whether it was the Bengal famine, Orissa Super Cyclone, Latur earthquake, Bhopal gas tragedy, Andhra cyclone, Bhuj earthquake, tsunami or the recurring floods in Bihar (Koshi in 2008), terrorists attacks in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore or the most recent spread of the epidemic swine flu virus and the current havoc causing floods down south, India has always been found wanting and under-prepared. The quality of Indian infrastructure has also proved to be a big hurdle. The loss of NH-7 to flood waters is a shame and the same can happen again unless the quality of assets in India improves.
“We are prepared to tackle any situation but when there is a huge deviation from the expected occurrence all the planning goes for a toss. For example the floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had deviated more than 600% thus one can do very little in such disasters,” defends Dr. Santosh Kumar, Professor at NIDM. The fact also remains that while the media has shown disaster in a crude manner, what has occured post any such kind of unsuspected happenings have never made headlines but have been poorly and shabbily covered, just for the sake of doing so.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012. An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Session at IMA Indore
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IIPM’s Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
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