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Monday, June 9, 2014

Disasters must be avoided

26 washed away in Himachal ?

Why disasters are allowed to happen? These are in almost all cases due to negligence. It is possible to avoid most of them.

Following must be done immediately to avoid further such disasters:

- There must be a protocol of all occurrences. This must include well defined procedures of do's and don'ts.
- All dangers must be pre-conceived by specialists. Proper warnings and guards must be in place.
- Why in this age of technology it is required to activate hooter manually? All such warnings like hooters, red light blinkers must get activated automatically through computerized system.
- There must be immediate rescue operation. All districts must have disasters management teams with helicopters to reach site in minutes. Search operation must continue during night under floodlights.
- There must be well laid disaster action plan.
- Politicians must avoid visiting disaster site but those in command must supervise the entire operation through tele conferencing. This will avoid undue distraction of attention and effort.
- Disaster management of various countries must be researched and used in creating a good disaster avoidance and management system.

Every life is precious. Death due to negligence is sad and shameful.

Time to create a system.