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The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology developed an early warning system to help Mumbai's citizens avoid flooded pockets with updates sent to their phones.
Disaster mitigation plans in India are lagging behind relief and reconstruction, both in terms of substance and funding.
About 79.5% of the 1,719 villages in Muzaffarpur district, India, do not have a public healthcare facility, causing an alarming increase in child mortality from AES.
The Indian state Odisha, the most disaster-prone in the country, was able do drastically reduce the number of casualties resulting from Cyclone Fani thanks to recent efforts to improve preparedness. They state now needs to focus on the next challenge: Rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure and livelihoods.
A new report reveals that weather-related losses in India more than doubled from U.S. $20 billion in 1998-2007 to $45 billion in 2008-2017. Revealing an average of 16 annual extreme events during the latter decade compared to 10 during the former, the report has serious implications for the agriculture sector, which bore a major share of losses.
In response to heat trends, the Indian government has released a draft of the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP). But the ICAP fails to include future climate trends in its projection of heat risk in different geographic areas. It also does not increase awareness on heat stress or focus on the needs of vulnerable people living and working in exposed places.
India faces similar wild fire risks to California and is therefore susceptible to the same devastation. But India lacks sufficient fire planning knowledge, statistics, and policies, all the while fighting fires with outdated methods. In an age of climate variability, such lack of preparedness can put India’s forest wealth at a huge risk.
Despite the emphasis on a paradigm shift towards a preparedness approach by the government, most parts of India continue to follow a relief-centric approach in disaster management. India needs to invest in disaster management across the country and should adopt a collaborative management plan, where all actors work towards achieving disaster resilience.
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