Dear Readers,
Greetings!
Floods bring the most recurrent natural calamity. India faces floods almost every year, in varying degrees of magnitude. The country suffers huge economic losses annually besides the loss of precious human lives due to low resilience to floods. The devastation caused due to floods in the past has drawn attention of the planners of the country towards comprehensive flood management plans, policies and implementation thereof. The flood management practices have largely focused on reducing flooding and reducing the susceptibility to flood damage through variety of interventions. Different measures have been adopted to reduce the flood losses and protect the flood plains. However, if we could also learn to live with floods and also build resilience simultaneously, it would be beneficial to the overall economy. Therefore, Know Disasters has brought to you its July issue on ‘Building Flood Resilience’.
Know Disasters has been trying to cover various critical dimensions of DRR and Resilience building to raise awareness and education, especially in bridging the gap between technical information available and information disseminated to the public. We believe that demystifying and simplifying the existing knowledge before it can be made friendly to the common man is the need of the hour and herein lies the greatest challenge. Notwithstanding, this magazine has been committed to Building Disaster Resilience by Making Disasters ‘Everyone’s Business’.
This issue has brought to you different articles, relevant news, viewpoints and studies, the creativity of children, and information about recent books around its central theme. You can read ‘Recurring and Expanding Hydro-meteorological Disasters’ by Loy Rego, ‘Submerged: India’s Tryst with Flood Management’ by Niti Mishra, ‘Frequent Flood’s in the 21st Century India: A Governance Issue’ authored by Dr. Jayanta Debnath, ‘From the floodwaters of Silchar (Assam): Insights for effective disaster response and DRR’ by Porag Shome, ‘Is Flash Flood an Ignored Hydrometeorological Disaster?’ by Eklavya Prasad and Aparna, ‘Effect of COVID-19 on Health Care Financing: UK and India experience’ by Dr Gajendra Singh and other young co-authors, and ‘Living with Cyclones: Precautions to Take Before, During and After’ by Colonel Razzaque Adil. You can also read the regular column of Dinesh Mishra Ji, and an interview of Dr. H. Kit Miyamoto, Global CEO of Miyamoto International, Inc. I hope you will like these articles.
With this, I would like to thank all our authors who have contributed their articles, and the readers for their encouraging responses. Please continue to share with your family and friends and encourage them to write their experiences and stories and share your valuable comments and contribution to the magazine.
Stay Informed, Safe & Healthy!
Anil Kumar Sinha, IAS (Retd.)
Hony. Editor-in-Chief, “Know Disasters”
Founder Vice Chairman, Bihar State Disaster Management Authority
Email: anilsinha.k@gmail.com
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