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India: Complete preparation to deal with a tsunami: important disaster lessons – eSHOP24X7
On the morning of December 26, 2004, Kerala Srkumar fisherman went to the sea to fish. But while working, suddenly he saw strange discrepancies in the signals from Echo Sounder.
Srkumar remembers the day, he said: “The sea waves had become unusually faster, making me very difficult to get the fishing network. I felt that something was wrong. I anchored the boat near one of my mouths and somehow I reached the shore, fighting with turbulent waves.”
“He had started ravages when he got there. The houses were empty, the people had gone from there, and many people tried to understand the situation, surprised by this agitation.”
In 2004, the Tsunami of the Indian Ocean created panic in 14 countries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, causing more than 2 Lakh 30 thousand people to die and there was great devastation. 20 years have passed for that disaster and now there is a different scene of progress and preparation in this area.
New era of preparation
India has strongly strengthened its disaster preparations, through scientific progress, systems prior to war and the programs and plans of community holes.
At present, the old Warning System of India is one of the most reliable systems in the world, which provides assistance to many countries in the Asia and Pacific region, even not only within the country, but also including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand.
Together with these comrades, international participation such as the Unesco Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission (IOC) has provided the installation to share the worldwide knowledge worldwide, which has helped take time before taking measures and increase the ability to predict and manage Tsunami’s threats.
The head of the Secretariat of Co-Unesco, Dr. T Srinivas Kumar, says: “It is necessary to provide global participation through UNESCO-IOC, preparations. These schemes serve as a global” “” “systems” system.
Tsunami preparation program: meditation is in the community
In the center of this change is: the Tsunami preparation program, which is a unique initiative launched by UNESCO -OC to increase the comfort of the community. In the district of Kendrapara de Odisha, villages such as Kaitha and Rajnagar have become the ideal of preparation for the cyclone and cyclone. 28 communities of India have been declared ‘competent tsunami’ and many other villages are very close to achieving this feat.
Kaitha says Narmada Patra, the volunteer of the village community, “previously did not understand the meaning of a tsunami properly. But now, he trained the children every month, I teach them where to go to that disaster, what to go to protect and how to take care of the elders during the emergency.
UNESCO and INCOIS, recognizing the important role of the media in the preparation of the disaster, organized an initial warning center for journalists in India and a community tour of ‘Tsunami ready’.
Here the journalists had the opportunity to see Tsunami monitoring activities in real time and obtain information about the fast response system. Also in these warnings, the community’s response also demonstrated the “list for the tsunami.”
Learn from the past, future preparations
The 2004 tsunami gave a difficult lesson on the generalized impacts of disasters. During the rescue action, it was understood that there has been much damage in addition to the immediate loss of known goods.
Schools and infrastructure were destroyed, clean water was destroyed and displaced families faced serious problems such as food shortage and health crisis.
These challenges revealed the importance of general disaster management, causing attention not only to immediate threats, but also to long -term improvement. In the future, India is focusing on developing an initial warning system of oriented multiple threats.
This progress coincides with the United Nations Tsunami program in Ocean Decade, whose objective is to promote international cooperation to improve the global warning system and improve community preparation.
According to this initiative, remedies such as infrastructure monitoring, the improvement of reprisals and integration of local knowledge in preparation strategies include measures.
Two decades after tragedy, tsunami in the Indian Ocean offers a hard example of the power of nature and weakness of humanity. But at the same time, the progress obtained through collective action is also revealed.
The purpose of the ‘Program prepared for the TSUNAMI’ of UNESCO is to raise awareness and preparations, promote cooperation between interested parties and establish the identity of communities that meet the main security indicators.
The program’s commitment to train weak communities will help guarantee a safe future for the universal by 2030.
