On the morning of December 2, December 2, Kerala went to the sea for fishing in Srikumar. But while working, he suddenly saw the strange significance of the symptoms from Eco Sounder.
Srikuma recalled the day, “The sea waves were abnormally fast, it was very difficult to get me fishing nets. I felt something wrong. I anchored the boat near my face, and somehow reached the shore, fought with the turbulent waves.”
“I reached there and started destroying. The houses were empty, people left there and many people were trying to understand the situation in surprise when they saw this turmoil.”
In the 21st, the Indian Ocean tsunami created panic in five countries of the Indian and Pacific, causing more than 2 lakh people to die and there was a huge destruction. 20 years have passed for that disaster and now the region has a different scene of progress and preparation.
New era of preparation
India has strongly strengthened its disaster preparations through scientific progress, pre-warning systems and community-eating programs and plans.
Currently, India’s former warning system is one of the most reliable systems in the world, not only in the country but also in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand, and many countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
In addition to these comrades, international participation such as the UNESCO Inter-Government Ocean Commission (IOC) has provided the convenience of sharing the worldwide knowledge, which has helped to take pre-acceptance steps and increase the power to predict and manage the threat of tsunami.
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Tsunami Preparation Program: On the meditation community
The center of this change is – a tsunami preparation program, which is a unique initiative to launch the community’s comfort by the UNESCO -IOC. Villagers like Kita and Rajnagar have become the ideal of cyclone and cyclone in the center of Orissa, Kita and Rajnagar. Twenty -two Indian communities have been declared ‘tsunami worthy’ and many other villages are very close to this achievement.
Kitha says, Narmada Patra, volunteer of the village community, “I did not understand the meaning of the tsunami before. But now I am training the kids every month, taught them where to go to this national disaster, what to protect and how to take care of the elderly.
UNESCO and Incois organized a preliminary warning center for Indian journalists and a ‘tsunami ready’ community in recognizing the important role of the media in the preparation of disaster.
Here journalists had the opportunity to visit tsunami monitoring activities in real time and get information about the rapid response system. Also in these warnings, ‘prepared for tsunami’ was also shown by the community response.
The past, learning from the preparation of the future
28 tsunami gave a difficult lesson about the broad effect of disaster. During the rescue work, it was understood that there was a lot of damage in addition to the immediate damage to the knowledge.
Schools and infrastructure were destroyed, clean water was destroyed, and displaced families faced serious problems like food shortages and health crisis.
These challenges have expressed the importance of overall disaster management, which not only focuses not only on immediate threat, but also in long -term improvement. In the future, India is focusing on developing the initial warning system of multi -oriented threats.
This progress matches the tsunami program of the UN Ocean, whose aim is to improve the global warning system and promote international cooperation to improve community preparations.
Under this initiative, remedies include remedies such as monitoring infrastructure, improvement of revenge and integrating local knowledge in preparation strategies.
Two decades after the tragedy, the tsunami of the Indian Ocean gives a strict example of the power of nature and the weakness of humanity. At the same time, the progress received through collective activities is also revealed.
The purpose of UNESCO’s ‘Tsunami Preparation Program’ is to create awareness and preparation, encourage cooperation among stakeholders and establish the identity of the community combined with main security indicators.
The promise of the program to train the weak communities will help ensure a safe future for the public by 2030.
