Wanted: a Natgrid for disasters
For almost two days, those sitting in the Dehradun secretariat were clueless about the intensity of the disaster that had struck Uttarakhand. The fact that over the last three years, the NDRF has trained a mere 3,000 personnel in 12 States shows the low priority that disaster management gets in the State governments’ scheme of things. Until we have disaster response teams at the district levels — which Uttarakhand did not have — we will fail every time,” said a senior official of the Home Ministry. What India lacks today is a ‘National Grid’ for disaster management to help integrate different wings of the government at the Centre, and in the States and the districts. The NDMA was expecting a formal request from the Uttarakhand government, and since that was taking a long time in coming, we decided to work with NGOs in the affected area and implement the emergency program directly,” said Zubin Zaman, Oxfam India’s Humanitarian Response Manager.
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