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Ham Radio
Ham Radio is also know as Amateur radio.It is a community of people that use radio transmitters and receivers to communicate with other Amateur radio operators. If you were to ask a dozen different amateurs what ham radio meant to them chances are you would get 12 different answers. Amateur radio operators are often called ham radio operators or simply “hams” and frequently the public is more familiar with this term than with the legal term Radio Amateur. The source of this nickname is for all practical purposes lost from the beginning.
Communication is a major bottleneck in case of any major disaster particularly when the traditional network system already in force brake down. In order to strengthen communications, it has been decided that police network (POLNET) will also be used for disaster management. For this purpose POLNET communication facility will be extended to District Magistrates, Sub Divisional Magistrates as well as the Control Rooms.
For emergency communication, mobile satellite based units which can be transported to the site of the disaster are being procured. A group was constituted to draw a comprehensive communication plan for disaster management and the report has since been received. This provides for a dedicated communication system for disaster management with built in redundancies.
Besides the satellite, communication and education can play a proactive role in mitigation through awareness about the types of disaster and as to how prevention measures can be taken up.
There is also a Satellite based communication system called the Cyclone Warning Dissemination Systems (CWDS) for transmission of warnings. There are 250 such cyclone-warning sets installed in the cylone prone areas of east and west coast. The general public, the coastal residents and fishermen, are also warned through the Government mechinery and broadcast of warnings through AIR and Television.
What agencies need to be involved ?
The use of satellite, computers, electronics, better communication facilities are going to make significant difference in disaster management. The data processing and computers are providing a useful tool in decision making in disaster.
When the disaster strikes, power goes out, all modes of communication (Telephone etc.) becomes inoperable, lifts stop functioning, when drinking water becomes contaminated, when normal modes of transportation suddenly becomes impossible, when casualties start coming in groups that is not the time for planning but that is the time of acting.
SOME OF THE MAJOR DISASTER EVENTS IN INDIA
Year |
Place Of Disasters in India |
Casualties Reported |
1737 |
Earthquake Calcutta, India |
3,00,000 |
1961 |
Floods India |
1,000 |
1977 |
Cyclone Andhra Pradesh, India |
10,000 |
1979 |
Flash Flood Gujrat, India |
2,500 |
1984 |
Chemical Disaster Bhopal, India |
2,500 |
1988 |
Train Accident Quilon, India (Injured) |
300(500) |
1988 |
Air Crash Ahmedabad, India |
135 |
1993 |
13 Bomb Blasts In Mumbai, India. |
250 |
1998 |
Train Accident Khanna, Pusa, India. |
211 |
2001 |
Earthquake Bhuj Gujrat, India. |
10,000 |
2003 |
Frontier Mail Fire Ludhiyana, Punjab, India |
36 (14) |
2003 |
2 Bomb Blasts In Mumbai, India. |
45 |
2003 |
Cloud Burst Himanchal Pradesh, India. |
41 |
2003 |
Stampede At Kumbh, Nasik, India. |
35 (75) |
2002 |
Terrorist’s Attack Kaluchak, Jammu. |
23 |
2003 |
Terrorist’s Attack on Railway Station, Jammu |
20 |
2004 |
Terrorist’s Attack on Railway Station, Jammu. |
08 |
Communication facilities for disaster management system is most important act as it convey at the right time communication in disaster, it may handle disaster and helping to decrease it.
Two type of information needs in disaster management
Now a days Satellite communication play a major role in disaster management communication. Communication facilities can be set up for rescue and relief operation purposes. That type of early warning system developed at the different area’s by itself.
Here are the disaster communication facilities:
Set up of a communications centre – who needs access and how would it operate (generators, supplies in case people need to stay more than 12 hours, etc).
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