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FORMING A SUSTAINABLE DISASTER
MANAGEMENT POLICY
The Inefficient and inactive Disaster Management Authorities have
created scores of Problems for the Government to Mitigate the
natural calamities and warranting the government to frame the
effective Disaster Management Policy
...
Unfortunately, In
Pakistan,
poor
planning,
inactiveness of the Institutions
and
poorly
trained
Disaster
Management officials make the
manageable Circumstances into
Unmanageable
one
due
to
incompetence
...

The ERRA
contained professionals mainly
from Pakistan Army since Our
nation always looks toward the
army in times of Disasters as our
brave soldiers rush to rescue,
relief,
and
rehabilitate
the
communities
...
ERRA has
done the marvellous job in
rebuilding the demolished houses,
roads and other structures
...


Pakistan has experienced various
huge disasters in the history -be
it Earth Quake of 8th October
2005 , that hit the major parts of
Azad Kashmir and the capital of
the country
,killing 100s
of
people and hundreds of people
were injured , Hundreds of people
became
homeless since their
Houses turned into debris by the
massive earth Quake
...


The Super floods of 2010 also
spread widespread destruction of
crops, houses, industries and loss
of hundreds of people
...
The
District Kashmore was severely hit
as the Tori Embankment is
situated in the District
...

The
River
Indus
inundated
hundreds of Acres of Agricultural
Land
...
The Super Floods were
caused by the Heavy Rains in KP,
Punjab that caused Flash Floods
that engulfed entire Pakistan
...
9 inches
...

The Repercussions were very
intense owing to being Hilly area
and the water was flowing like the
3

bullet inflicted collateral damage
to properties
...

The UN Secretary General Ban
Kay Moon termed the Flooding as
the biggest Disaster he had ever
seen and submitted his appeal for
relief and Rehabilitation to the
UN member Countries as the
damage was too big for Pakistan
to mitigate
...

The Govt of Pakistan thought over
the establishment of
Disaster
Management Authority to help
Government
Make
the
Contingency plans to fight existing
and Future Disasters
...
There
is a need of establishing Disaster
Risk
Management
fund
at
Provincial Level and District level
to help provide relief to the

FORMING A SUSTAINABLE DISASTER MANAGEMENT POLICY

affectees on time
...

The
National
Disaster
Management
Authority
was
established after provision of
National Disaster Act 2010 by the
Parliament
to
mitigate
the
Disasters and making contingency
plans for catastrophes with the
approval of NDMC (National
Management Council) headed by
PM
...
It
would be more effective if the
chairman should be from the
Development sector as they have
great
Training
in
Disaster
Management and Other
Field
Level Activities
...
The NDMA
act must create room for a civilian
chairman who can steer the goals
of Apex
Disaster Management
Authority
...

The Establishment of NDMA is not
sufficient but giving it financial
freedom and proper Human
resource is very necessary
...

Especially,
Thar
Desert of Sindh where drought,
famine and Epidemics have
engulfed the poor Tharies and so
far,
both
the
Federal
and
Provincial
Governments
have
failed to assess the level of
damage and mitigate such high
level of Natural Calamity
...


and

Development

The Development partners have
the greater role as they had shown
in the earthquake of 2005, Super
Floods of 2010, Rain Floods of
2011 and Earth Quake of 2013
resulting (80% of destruction in
Awaran District ) of Baluchistan
...

There is a strong need of
Restructuring
Disaster
Management Services at District
Level
...
It is missing the key
departments in case of flooding or
rain emergency such as Irrigation,
Agriculture, Works and Services
Department,
District
Food
Controllers,
Social
Welfare
Department, Population Welfare
and Information department
...
The Proper DDMA chief
will make detailed Contingency
Plans for Rain or Flood Emergency
plans and appraise the District
and Provincial Governments to
take
necessary
arrangements
ahead of such happenings
...

There is also need of establishing
Taluka
Disaster
Management
Committees,
UC
Disaster
Management
Committees and
Cluster Village Committees with
the inclusion of Local Government
representatives and Village Heads
so that Disaster Management
network may be strengthened
...
The civil
servants must have compulsory
training in disaster management
...

It was also a welcome initiative to
establish a National Disaster Risk
Management
Fund
with
Assistance
from
Asian
Development
...
It is accepted
truth that disasters bring misery
to the hustling-bustling cities and
convert them into debris but with
the proper disaster management
policy, we may be able to mitigate
the effects, create resilience and
rehabilitate the affectees in a
proper way
...
SPDC,
PILER and NDMI so that future
disasters can be prevented and
professionally mitigated

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