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    India is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world, with 85% of its land area vulnerable to hazards like earthquakes, cyclones, and floods. Recent natural disasters in India include the Assam earthquake, Cyclones Gulab and Tauktae, and floods in Maharashtra, causing millions to be displaced and health issues. India has developed administrative systems for disaster management at national, state, and local levels. It has implemented pre- and post-disaster programs to reduce impacts and vulnerabilities. However, losses from disasters continue to rise, so greater public awareness and investment in mitigation are needed. India assesses potential environmental impacts through its Environmental Impact Assessment process. It has

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    India is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world, with 85% of its land area vulnerable to hazards like earthquakes, cyclones, and floods. Recent natural disasters in India include the Assam earthquake, Cyclones Gulab and Tauktae, and floods in Maharashtra, causing millions to be displaced and health issues. India has developed administrative systems for disaster management at national, state, and local levels. It has implemented pre- and post-disaster programs to reduce impacts and vulnerabilities. However, losses from disasters continue to rise, so greater public awareness and investment in mitigation are needed. India assesses potential environmental impacts through its Environmental Impact Assessment process. It has

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    India is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world, with 85% of its land area vulnerable to hazards like earthquakes, cyclones, and floods. Recent natural disasters in India include the Assam earthquake, Cyclones Gulab and Tauktae, and floods in Maharashtra, causing millions to be displaced and health issues. India has developed administrative systems for disaster management at national, state, and local levels. It has implemented pre- and post-disaster programs to reduce impacts and vulnerabilities. However, losses from disasters continue to rise, so greater public awareness and investment in mitigation are needed. India assesses potential environmental impacts through its Environmental Impact Assessment process. It has

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    Environment KECTIL

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    India is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world, with 85% of its land area vulnerable to hazards like earthquakes, cyclones, and floods. Recent natural disasters in India include the Assam earthquake, Cyclones Gulab and Tauktae, and floods in Maharashtra, causing millions to be displaced and health issues. India has developed administrative systems for disaster management at national, state, and local levels. It has implemented pre- and post-disaster programs to reduce impacts and vulnerabilities. However, losses from disasters continue to rise, so greater public awareness and investment in mitigation are needed. India assesses potential environmental impacts through its Environmental Impact Assessment process. It has

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    Assignment-4: Environment

    Task1: India’s national progress on climate-related hazards and natural-


    Disasters strategies.
    The Indian subcontinent is among the world's most disaster prone area. Almost 85 percentage of India’s
    area is vulnerable to one or multiple hazard. Indian climate is the most unpredictable one with a wide
    range of weather condition across a vast geographical scale and varied topography affecting lives of
    millions of people creating huge impact on Indian Economy. Assam earthquake, Cyclone Gulab, Cyclone
    Tuktae, Maharastra Flood, Cyclone Yaas are the few of the massive natural disaster faced by different
    part of India causing relocation of millions of people and health issues throughout the immigrant groups.

    he country has integrated administrative machinery for disaster management at National, Provincial
    State, District and Sub-District levels. India, besides evolving effective post-disaster management
    operations, has also formulated and implemented pre-disaster mitigation programmes and sectoral
    development programmes to reduce the impact of disasters as well as reduce the socio-economic
    vulnerabilities. It is absolutely necessary to create awareness amongst the public as well as decision
    makers for allocating resources for appropriate investments in disaster management. India is committed
    to the goals and objectives of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. A special plan
    programme is now implemented for development of human resources, encouraging research and
    documentation and enhancing community awareness in the field of natural disasters. In spite of
    initiating various disaster mitigation measures, the trend of losses is not indicating any sign of
    improvement.
    Task 2: Policy engagement of India reflecting on climate change
    measures.

    Environment Impact Assessment EIA in India is a standard process used to foresee the environmental
    consequence of a policy, plan, project or program before implementing them. EIA is an equally an early
    warning process and an ongoing review process that protects susceptible environmental resources from
    unjustifiable damage. EIA s made compulsory on various projects to get environmental clearance. Over
    the years, a number of laws have been enacted to protect the environment and mitigate the climatic
    disasters. The regulatory framework consists of the following acts. The Indian Forest Act, 1927 - The Act
    of 1927 embodied land-using policy, Section 26i of the Act makes it punishable if any person, who, in
    contravention of the rules made by the State Government, poisons water of a forest area. The Wild-Life
    Protection Act, 1972 - Prohibits the hunting of wildlife, with rare exceptions. It declared protected areas
    as Sanctuaries and National Parks. This act constituted wildlife authorities. Prohibits or regulates trade in
    wild animals, trophies and animal article. The Water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act, 1974 The
    Forest Conservation Act, 1980 - Prohibits the de-reservation of reserved forests, the use of forest land
    for a non-forest purpose, and the clearing of trees from forest land, except with the prior approval of
    the Central Government. The Water Prevention Control of Pollution Cess Act, 1981, An Act to provide
    for the prevention and control of water pollution and the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of
    water. Constituted Pollution Control Boards PCBs in every state, and a Central Pollution Control Board at
    the Centre. PCBs issue consents for establishment of industries and discharge of effluents The Air
    Prevention Control of Pollution Act, 1981 - Provides a regulatory framework for the prevention, control
    and abatement of air pollution.

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