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Ayush PathakAIR 215· 2025

Question Q.8GS3GS3

Disasters cannot be managed by a single agency, department, or ministry on its own. It requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. Elucidate.

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Disasters are a natural or non-induced phenomena causing large scale destruction which is beyond the coping capacity of the community. DM Act 2005. Need for whole of government and whole of society approach: (1) Silo approach to collaborative work, (ep*) Centre-state collaboration to work together (Odisha model). (2) Effective communication to body levering dissemination through IMD and MAHA (ep*) airspread landslide hotenty).

3Effective regulations of activities (ep*) CRZ notification about constructions, effective tourism and sustainable development, (ep*) SEZ notification → sustainable equalization. Whole of society: (3) Leverage private sector/NGOs (ep*) Red Care, Robinhood corps in rescue work. (4) People as stakeholders in the work (ep*) Information dissemination and media for advisory role (ep*) during COVID-19. (7) Media for advisory role (ep*) during COVID-19. Thus a collaborative community-based disaster risk reduction augurs well for a sustainable region to address disasters in future (Bihar Model).
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Conclusion

Thus a collaborative community-based disaster risk reduction augurs well for a sustainable region to address disasters in future (Bihar Model).

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Topper

Ayush Pathak

AIR 2152025

Subject & Paper

GS3GS3

Topic

Disaster Management

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Whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to disaster management

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