The district administration stated that the mock drill would be conducted on June 28 in Gurugram, Faridabad, Jhajjar and Sonipat districts of Haryana, along with Delhi and adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh, such as Noida, Ghaziabad and Meerut. read more

If you do not help evacuate residents from flooding spots, get ready to pay fine or face imprisonment, BMC tells pvt food and transport services. read more

The plan is based on BMC’s disaster management (DM) department’s disaster response and evacuation plan for residents living along the banks of the four rivers – Dahisar, Mithi, Oshiwara, and Poisar – which was finalised earlier this year. read more

UNICEF programme officer said, there is a tremendous need for planning and preparedness in disaster-prone Bihar. read more

Maharashtra Class Owners Association (MCOA) said it will train around 1,000 coaching class owners in fire safety and disaster management at Ravindra Natya Mandir in Prabhadevi, Mumbai on June 1. read more

The residents’ association plans to hold a second workshop on fire and disaster response soon read more

Hotel owners in tourist spots along West Bengal’s coastline such as Digha, Mandarmani, Tajpur and Shankarpur fear a loss of business even if their resorts escape the brunt of the storm’s fury. read more

The Special Centre for Disaster Research, JNU, New Delhi in collaboration with NITI Aayog, NDMA, NIDM, ICSSR, Skymet Weather and Springer Nature is organising a three day Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Governance and Disaster Management... read more

Apart from the usual old-age and decay, what threatens most buildings in Delhi is structural fragility. They are simply built badly. Every third resident in the city lives in a poorly provisioned home in an ‘unauthorised’ or ‘unauthorised-regularised’... read more

Officials from the forest, revenue and disaster management and the town and country planning (TCP) departments will discuss the delineation of the Natural Conservation Zone (NCZ) status for parts of the Aravallis. read more

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IMD representatives apprised the state authorities about the strong monsoon conditions with heavy rainfall activity in a meeting convened by CM Pinayari Vijayan on August 9, according to a statement issued by the ministry of earth sciences (MoES). read more

Disaster management plans exist on paper, but implementation remains a challenge read more

There are problems with the network that is used to send the recorded data, with the task of maintenance assigned to a third party. read more

Steps need to be taken for river and watershed management through an integrated approach. Often these approaches involve both hard engineering solutions and ecologically sustainable soft solutions. read more