What is Disaster ?

A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensibly defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life, property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of a combination of both hazard/s and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case in uninhabited regions.The Disaster Management Cell of Shantikunj classifies disasters into two classes – (1) Permanent Disaster. (2) Temporary Disaster...
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Temporary Disaster

Natural Disaster: - Natural Epidemic, Flood, Earthquake, Landslides, Drought, Cyclones, etc. Some great disasters that come all of a sudden creating havoc on humanity. Disasters that fall as an adverse situation harming life and material on a large scale. Natural Disaster: - Natural Epidemic, Flood, Earthquake, Landslides, Drought, Cyclones, etc. Some great disasters that come all of a sudden creating havoc on humanity. Disasters that fall as an adverse situation harming life and material on a large scale. ...
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Permanent Disaster

Out of the 2 classifications by the Disaster Management Cell of Shantikunj-   Permanent Disaster - means An event which takes time to establish itself and stays for a long time making us fight hard.The outcome of such an event is worse than anything influencing a large number of masses. Such an event is very hard to recognize and hence takes almost years to be diagnosed. Examples of such a disaster are Life Imbalance, Illiteracy, Unemployment, Environment Pollution, Addiction, Evil Customs, etc. So far it is hard to say that any one of the diagnosed permanent disaster has found total eradication....
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