Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016

Disaster Management- Case Studies in Chennai

Vishnu Tej Bondu Muni

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 The disasters that occur are sometimes man made, and sometimes natural. The disasters come in the form of tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, drought and industrial. The tsunami on December 26, 2004 was a major disaster in India that affected mainly Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pudduchari and Andhra Pradesh and Andaman Nicobar Islands. The natives in Andaman and Nicobar Islands smelled and forecast the event even before scientists and technology by using their indigenous knowledge. The Bhopal gas tragedy was happened three decades before and it was, till then, India’s worst industrial disaster. In 2005 Maharashtra floods were a major disaster and in 2008 cyclone Nisha caused major floods in Tamil Nadu while Koshi floods happened in North Bihar and floods at AP, Karnataka, Delhi, Orissa. In 2009, over 252 districts in ten states were affected by severe drought. In 2012 severely floods at Assam in 2013 Uttarakand floods, in 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods, and 2015 west Bengal floods all this disasters are managed by National Institute of Disaster Management (NDMA). This paper focuses its attention on disaster management and case studies and prevention. The data collection is collected through primary and secondary sources and random sampling method is used.

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Vishnu Tej Bondu Muni Disaster Management- Case Studies in Chennai Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 5, Issue : 3 March 2016

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