The Formation of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure brings more robustness to the Disaster Management approach in India. Comment and justify the need for a new strategy to tackle Disasters in India.

→ The CDRI draws from the Sendai Principles of Disaster risk reduction.

→ The objective of CDRI has brought more robustness to Disaster Management approach due to following reasons:

• The objective now is not just to minimize disaster losses but also to reduce risks to infrastructure.

Risk to infrastructure can be reduced through: i) Reduction in exposure to Hazard ii) Reduction in vulnerability iii) Improving the capacity of infrastructure to cope with hazard. For example, earthquake resistant buildings can be designed with light weight materials.

→ They can be made ductile so that they can sway with the earthquake and return to the original position once the earthquake is over.

→ Also, the infrastructure can be made resilient only if it is built in areas regarded as safe or less vulnerable (in microzonation studies).

→ Thus, CDRI aims to involve governments as well as communities as stakeholder in making the infrastructure more disaster-resilient.

NEED FOR NEW STRATEGY:

To cope with Climate change \ To deal with \ Extreme \

weather events
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| Need for a /---> Floods, | new strategy to / cloudbursts | tackle disasters | / \ ---> Unpredict- | / \ -able | / \ earthquakes To enhance <--------/
preparedness

To develop
an institutional
mechanism To avoid
for Land
response, subsidence,
recovery, Joshimath
mitigation \

Thus, disasters can be handled deftly if we have a proper strategy alongside a resilient infrastructure.