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Vimarsh on the Earth Sciences & their Importance for the Nation's Well-being - Dr. Shailesh Nayak

On the ninth of February, 2022, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Vimarsh on the “Earth Sciences and their Importance for the Nation's Well-being”. The session encompassed a series of introductory remarks by Dr Arvind Gup....

February 15, 2022 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Energy Security , Disaster Management , Cyclones , Earth Sciences , Tsunamis , Earthquakes
The Institutionalised Approach to Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Swati Mitra Commentary

Eminent Physicist & Cosmologist Prof. Stephen Hawking said, “there is nothing called heaven, it is a fairy tale for people who are afraid of the dark”. It is antithetical to the heart-rending stampede that was easily avoidable yet took place on D....

January 20, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Commentary , Disaster , PLAN , Kumbh Mela , pilgrims
महामारी के समय राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण को क्रियाशील करने की जरूरत
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस समय अभूतपूर्व स्तर पर स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति का सामना कर रहा है। कोविड -19 महामारी अब तक 250,00....

June 09, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , DDMA , SDMA , आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम
The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

India is facing a health emergency of unprecedented proportions. The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 24 million people in India. It is now rapidly spreading to rural areas where health infrastructure is mea....

May 18, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , Disaster Management Act , DDMA , SDMA
Operationalising the Supply Chain of Corporates as an effective Disaster Management Response
Dr Swati Mitra Article

Introduction
The Pandemic has re-drawn lines in the entire gamut of the social system wherein concepts like globalization, industrialization, information technology etc, have re-coined themselves. Mankind’s imaginative ideas that had cr....

February 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Disaster Management , Article , Pandemic , Supply chains , sustainable development , NDMA , CFC , corporate social responsibility , Parsonian state
Challenges of Building Disaster Resilient Indian Smart Cities
Dr Swati Mitra Article

March, 8, 2020: The world is gripped with the fear of COVID-19, including India. December 9, 2019: More 42 people killed in the Delhi Fire incident July 16, 2019: Building collapses in India’s Maximum City Mumbai killing 7 and trappin....

March 12, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , Smart City , Japanese Smart City , Singapore Smart City , Indian Smart City Concept
Institutional Vulnerability in Handling Disaster
Dr Swati Mitra Commentary

Abstract:
The recent Mumbai floods, now Kerala, Karnataka and children dying in Muzaffarpur raises questions that is it lack of resources or preparedness or institutional vulnerability that has led to loss of lives in all these places. M....

September 13, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Commentary , Dealing with calamities , Disaster management institutions
National Workshop on ‘Earthquake Preparedness in India’

The VIF, the Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organised the workshop when a number of leading experts from across the country came together to deliberate on topics such as earthqu....

April 25, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Seminars , FICCI , Earthquake Preparedness , Earthquake mitigation
National Workshop on Earthquake Preparedness in India - Conference Proceedings

Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a two-day national workshop on earthquake preparedness in India on October 25 and 26, 2018. This workshop was organised in association with the Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) and the Federati....

March 25, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , FICCI , PPF , Earthquake Preparedness in India
Revisiting India's Disaster Response Mechanism: Challenges and Way Forward

One Day Round Table Conference (May 6, 2016) organised jointly by Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) & Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF)....

November 10, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , NDRF , India's Disaster Response , National Response Mechanism , State Response Mechanism
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