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Disaster Management Act 2005 defines disaster management as below:
Janardan Prasad Sr Professor/IRIMEE Disaster Management in Indian Railways An Introduction Background . 3 World’s fourth largest railway network Route length of 72,038 km and total track length of 1,23,236 km More than 13,452 passenger trains and 9,141 goods trains daily, from 7,318 stations across India The safety of railway operation and safety and security of the millions availing the railway services are of paramount importance. The ‘Citizen Charter’ of the Indian Railways also spells out the railways’ commitment in providing safe and dependable train services. There is a need of institutional and coordination mechanism for effective Disaster Management. 2 Disaster Defined . 3 The concept of a Disaster was not adequately and comprehensively defined on Indian Railways till 2005. It was accepted that a Disaster situation implies to cover only cases of serious train accidents. The definition of Disaster was legislated for the first time in the Disaster Management Act, 2005 as below: “disaster” means a catastrophe, mishap, calamity or grave occurrence in any area, arising from natural or man made causes, or by accident or negligence which results in substantial loss of life or human suffering or damage to, and destruction of, property, or damage to, or degradation of, environment, and is of such a nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity of the community of the affected area; 3 Disaster Defined . 3 The broad principles of disaster for any department of the government changed to the concept of any incident which could not be handled alone by that department i.e. if it was beyond the coping capacity of a particular department With this came the concept of the departments of Government of India as also the State governments required to join hands to extend whatever facilities available with them to provide relief/rescue and mitigation on the occurrence of a disaster 4 Disaster Management Defined . 3 Disaster Management Act 2005 defines disaster management as below: “disaster management” means a continuous and integrated process of planning, organising, coordinating and implementing measures which are necessary or expedient for- (i) prevention of danger or threat of any disaster; (ii) mitigation or reduction of risk of any disaster or its severity or consequences; (iii) capacity-building; (iv) preparedness to deal with any disaster; (v) prompt response to any threatening disaster situation or disaster; (vi) assessing the severity or magnitude of effects of any disaster; (vii) evacuation, rescue and relief; (viii) rehabilitation and reconstruction; 5 . 3 Features of DM Act, 2005 79 sections and 11 chapters. It ensures effective implementation and monitoring of disaster management plans. Three tier structural system to manage disasters : National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA ) headed by Prime Minister- responsible for laying down the policies, plans and guidelines for disaster management for ensuring timely and effective response to disaster at national level, to be assisted by National Executive Committee headed by Secretary of the Deptt/ministry of GoI having administrative control of Disaster Management State Disaster Management Authorities (SDMA) headed by Chief Ministers (LG for Delhi)-responsible for laying down policies and plans for disaster management in the State, to be assisted by State Executive Committee headed by chief Secretary of the State District Disaster Management Authorities headed by DM/DC and Co-chaired by chairman of local bodies- To act as the district planning, coordinating and implementing body for disaster management. It has to take all necessary measures for the purposes of disaster management in the district as per the guidelines laid down by the National Authority and the State Authority. 6 . 3 Features of DM Act, 2005 Constitution of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Constitution of National Disast
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