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Multi Hazard Disaster Risk Assessment: A Step Towards Disaster Resilience

GVV Sarma, Member Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority, talks to G’nY about building multi-disaster resilient infrastructure through comprehensive and integrated guidelines by involving entire geographic and socio-economic ecosystems.

Predicting weather-related disasters: Towards accuracy

M Mohapatra, Director General, India Meteorological Department (IMD), talks to G’nY about successes in monitoring and prediction as also the associated challenges of climate-related extreme events.

INCREASING VULNERABILITY, RISK AND UNDERMINING RESILIENCE: SOME REFLECTIONS

The essay questions current development paradigms, which undermines community resilience. With climate change and increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters, sustainable living is imperative. there is an urgent need to stop indiscriminate development, which exacerbates vulnerabilities in communities.

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION THROUGH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: VULNERABILITY AND TRAFFICKING

Research shows disasters exacerbate pre-existing vulnerabilities, which are often ignored in the disaster risk reduction policies. It is observed that people who are already vulnerable get more exposed to disaster risk, suffering a higher rate of mortality, morbidity and significant damages to their livelihoods and property. Although disasters do not make a distinction in gender—women and children tend to be the worst hit. The major global policy instruments thus need to align to facilitate and encourage better communication, participation and create awareness thereby ushering in the sustainable development goals under the 2030 development agenda. The paper attempts to highlight how streamlining disaster preparedness plays an important role in reducing vulnerabilities within and across communities.

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION THROUGH - HUMANITARIAN SUPPLY CHAIN DEVELOPMENT

In a disaster-prone country like India, it is important to work with a multi-pronged strategy to reduce the risk of disasters. Proper supply chain management for disasters, which is known as a humanitarian supply chain (HSC) can play a vital role in disaster risk reduction. HSCs are different than most commercial supply chains. But many qualities of commercial supply chains can help HSCs to be more effective. handling of uncertainty, optimisation of facility locations, planning of inventory, developing proper information network are some of the issues, which HSCs can learn from commercial supply chains. at the same time commercial supply chains can also learn abilities to handle high uncertainty from HSCs. a properly planned HSC where the private sector is also involved can help in improving the response to the disasters.

ECOSYSTEM BASED APPROACHES: DISASTER PROOFING INDIA'S URBAN SPRAWLS

India is undergoing rapid urban expansion. With increasing population, rapid development and infrastructure growth, urban sprawls are the new hotspots of disaster. The article focuses on the Tier II city of Nagpur, which is being developed as a Smart City. The urban areas of the city have been facing recent water/ climate challenges and it is pertinent to explore the future of this city in the backdrop of increasing urban disasters.

DISASTER RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

Disasters have been inflicting heavy damage in terms of deaths, injuries, destruction of our habitat and economic activity. While over the last two decades india has much to share about its successful response in terms of minimising life loss—infrastructure damage, however, have remained very high. the economic impact of these extreme events are required to be evaluated, particularly in the light of growing urban and coastal establishments of the country. Citing case studies of vulnerable built-up facilities, this article presents disaster-resilient infrastructure issues in india.

DISASTER RESILIENCE - JOURNEY TO SUSTAINABLE INDIA – 2030

Planning and implementing disaster risk reduction requires integration pathways and appropriate tools. The transition from Hyogo Framework for Action to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction has brought focus on specific goals, integrating climate change adaptation and environment disaster linkages—mainstreaming it across all developmental sectors. This paper examines emerging issues of research and strategies for disaster risk framework strengthening and network development to achieve the designated goals by 2030, as also envisaged under the Prime Minister’s 10 Point Agenda on Disaster Risk Management.

FLOOD RESILIENCE CAPACITY OF THE COASTAL ECOSYSTEM: VIOLATION OF CRZ NOTIFICATION

Coastal zones are facing multiple anthropogenic challenges, including the encroachment of water bodies, which hamper their flood resilience capacity. The recent floods in the coastal cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi are examples. Even though India put in place the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification in 1991, its enforcement is a challenge. The recent Supreme Court order for the demolition of four high rise luxury apartment complexes in Kochi, which violated the CRZ Notifications, is an exception.

UNIVERSITIES OF THEIR OWN

India’s 16 women’s universities are training women to thrive, not just in professions typically associated with women, but also in science and tech.

PROTESTS, POLICE, PUNISHMENT

Students have been at the forefront of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. They have also been at the receiving end of the state’s efforts to push back.

OUTSIDE LABORATORIES

Some of the most elite research institutions in the country are engaged in explaining what they do to school children and the public.

MEGA UNIVERSITIES

The five largest universities in India have 4,209 affiliated colleges and centres among them.

IMPERMANENT STAFF

What does having thousands of ad hoc appointments mean for a public university, its teachers and students?

GOING DIGITAL

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala is becoming a ‘digital university’. The digital world will dictate what it teaches and how.

BEYOND TECH

The IITs have begun the transformation from premier science and tech schools to multidisciplinary institutions

BEING NON-BINARY AT WORK

A new consultancy is helping members of the LGBTQI+ community find work in friendly firms. But many participants of a job fair in February had already had bruising experiences at the workplace.

COLLEGES @HOME

Seven universities have been permitted to launch full-fledged degr programmes online. What are their plans?

Online Admissions: Easy For All?

Online admissions have relieved the universities of a huge burden. But the process is less convenient for poor and rural students.

सुधार और उसकी वास्तविकता

राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति का बिहार में कम संसाधन वाले, कर्मचारियों की कमी से जूझ रहे भारी बोझ तले दबे एक कॉलेज के लिए क्या आशय है? कॅरियर्स360 ने यह जानने के लिए बेगूसराय की यात्रा की।

सामाजिक उपेक्षा से मुक्ति

इंडिया विजन फाउंडेशन और मिशनरी स्कूलों की मदद से जेल में सजा काट रहे कैदियों के बच्चों ने अपने लिए सुनहरे भविष्य का निर्माण किया है।

पीपीपी से असहमति

नीति आयोग ने निजी अस्पतालों के साथ जिला अस्पतालों को जोड़ने वाले एक मॉडल एग्रीमेंट का ड्राफ्ट तैयार किया है । स्वास्थ्य और शिक्षा कार्यकर्ताओं को लगता है कि यदि इसे लागू किया जाता है तो यह मुसीबत को बढ़ावा देगा ।

निजी स्कूलों में बढ़ती फीस के खिलाफ संघर्ष

कई राज्य सरकारों ने निजी स्कूलों की फीस को नियंत्रित करने के उद्देश्य से कानून बनाए या संशोधित किए हैं। क्या वे कारगर हो रहे हैं?

दिल्ली का प्रयोग

शिक्षा पर जितना जोर दिल्ली की आप सरकार ने दिया है उतना जोर किसी अन्य राज्य ने पिछले कई वर्षों में नहीं दिया । आखिर उनकी एनजीओ और सलाहकार-संचालित सुधार परियोजना कितनी कारगर रही?

एलसैट से कौशल का मूल्यांकन

एलसैट को कानूनी शिक्षा के लिए अंडरग्रैजुएट और पोस्टग्रैजुएट प्रवेश परीक्षा दोनों के लिए अनुकूल कठिनाई स्तर के साथ तैयार किया गया है।

ऑनलाइन असमानता

भाषागत बाधा से जूझने और गलत सूचनाओं का शिकार होने वाले गरीब परिवारों के बच्चे इंटरनेट के मामले में भी पिछड़े हुए हैं।

आम आदमी और सरकारी विश्वविद्यालय

शुल्क में बढ़ोतरी किए जाने के कारण मची उथल-पुथल वाली स्थिति की नींव कई वर्षों पूर्व ही पड़ गई थी।

QUALITY OF LIFE AN AYURVEDIC APPROACH

The origin of Ayurveda has been traced to around 6000 BCE. The first recorded medical texts evolved from the Vedas. More than 1.5 million practitioners are using this traditional medicinal system for health care in India. It is estimated that 7800 manufacturing units are involved in the production of natural health products and traditional plant-based formulations in the nation, which requires more than 2000 tonnes of medicinal plant material annually.

HOMOEOPATHY THE SECOND MOST POPULAR SYSTEM OF MEDICINE IN THE WORLD

Samuel Hahnemann founded homoeopathy in 1796 as a holistic system of medicine where ‘the person in the disease’ is treated and not ‘the disease in the person’. it is perhaps the best alternative system of medicine, which is safest for the new born, the elderly and affordable even to the poorest. homoeopathic medicines are effective in infections, allergies, auto-immune, surgical, hormonal and psychological diseases, in addition to veterinary and plant diseases.

HAHNEMANN - The Therapeutic Pioneer of Psychosomatic Medicine of Today

In wellness clinics of the modern world, there is an increased inflow of patients with symptoms diagnosed by modern medicine as psychosomatic diseases. These latest advancements in medical science were well documented in the homoeopathic system of medicine since 1796. Samuel Hahnemann was in fact the first to design therapeutic cures for such diseases.