Junagadh District Earthquakes - Better prepared than sorry

Junagadh District Earthquakes - Better prepared than sorry I will reiterate several ideas which I have already shared before as we have not paid enough attention to them. We should think of new initiatives as well. We live in a high-risk zone, where... More

Junagadh District Earthquakes - Better prepared than sorry I will reiterate several ideas which I have already shared before as we have not paid enough attention to them. We should think of new initiatives as well. We live in a high-risk zone, where forewarned is forearmed. Several institutions and communities haven t carried out a drill for quick evacuation in the face of a calamity. Should we not insist on making it obligatory for every public and private organisations, housing societies and village communities to do such mock drills once every three or six months? One of the lessons we learnt in 2001 was that local communities have the most important role to play in an emergency followed by volunteers from nearby places. GSDMA site has resources which municipalities or other public bodies have. What we however need is a distributed list of such resources (material or human) with contact information and earmarked people willing to be contacted in an emergency. With this, volun Less