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Question
Discuss the following issue.
Disaster Management
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Solution
- Sometimes, we may have to face a calamity. It could be a natural disaster like floods, fire, a cloudburst, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, or problems like riots, bomb blasts, breaking of a dam, epidemics, etc.
- These disasters lead to the loss of human lives and the displacement of people, besides tremendous financial losses.
- Therefore, the issues of rehabilitation become important.
- Disaster management is a process that enables one to face a disaster in a scientific and organized manner. The entire machinery of a district is involved in the process.
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