According to the report entitled: Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters, which has been produced by Norwegian Refugee Council and Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (please click here to download): • During the year 2013, in India 1.04 million people were displaced due to floods and 1.0 million people were displaced due to the tropical cyclone Phailin. • …
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According to the report entitled Disaster Management in India (2011), Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, http://ndmindia.nic.in/UNDP-020811.pdf: Table a and table b show the major disasters faced by India. According to the report entitled Disaster Management in India (2011), Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, http://ndmindia.nic.in/UNDP-020811.pdf: Table a and table b show the major disasters faced by India. Table…
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According to Disaster Management in India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, http://www.unisdr.org/eng/mdgs-drr/national-reports/India- report.pdf: • Disaster management occupies an important place in this country’s policy framework as it is the poor and the under-privileged who is worst affected on account of calamities/disasters. • India has been traditionally vulnerable to natural disasters on account of…
Read MoreKEY TRENDS • The eight leading cause-groups of deaths in 2008 based on Medical Certification of Cause of Death are: 1. Diseases of the Circulatory System; 2. Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases; 3. Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes; 4. Diseases of the Respiratory System; 5. Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal…
Read MoreKindly click here to access the report titled Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities: The Burden on Indian Society(released in February, 2021), which is brought out by the World Bank in collaboration with SaveLIFE Foundation. — According to the report (please click here to access) entitled Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death 2008 (published…
Read MoreAccording to the report entitled Disaster Management in India (2011), http://ndmindia.nic.in/UNDP-020811.pdf, which has been prepared by Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI: • Global Status Report on Road Safety (WHO, 2009) has estimated that 1.2 million people die on the world’s road every year, and as many as 50 million others are injured. Over 90% of deaths occurred…
Read MoreAccording to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways data, http://morth.nic.in/: • The total number of road accidents has increased by nearly four times from 1,14,100 in 1970 to 4,29,910 in 2004 • The total number of persons killed due to road accidents has increased by nearly six times from 14,500 in 1970 to 92,618…
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