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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The nature 's fury, that devastated Uttarakhand in June 2013, was considered as unprecedented, though the blame was thrown on the State government and other concerned agencies at Centre and State for failure on numerous fronts including lack of institutional arrangements, dissemination and actions based on early warning, lack of coordination, unorganised response etc. It was also felt by many that the situation would have been same with any other state, had disaster of such magnitude have happened there, unless the occurrence of next big disaster event in Odisha in -the form of Cyclone Phailin, which created a success story in managing disasters. Now the country has two major disasters to compare where disaster management surfaced in two extremes. While Uttarakhand disaster resulted in complete failure, the effective disaster management of Phailin not only made us proud, it also became a benchmark for the whole world.
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