{"id":218252,"date":"2022-12-13T20:40:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218252"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:10:23","slug":"ready-for-the-worst-governments-and-agencies-have-shown-better-preparedness-for-cyclones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ready-for-the-worst-governments-and-agencies-have-shown-better-preparedness-for-cyclones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for the worst \u2013 Governments and agencies have shown better preparedness for cyclones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<strong>Ready for the worst \u2013 Governments and agencies have shown better preparedness for cyclones\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>13<sup>th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>measures needed to reduce the impact of cyclones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Cyclone Mandous did not cause much damage to the people of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh even though it led to heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What were the reasons behind less damage by the cyclone?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It was the response of the government official that controlled and guided the disaster management that lessened the impact of the cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamil Nadu government has been paying greater attention in improving the <strong>storm-water drain network<\/strong> and such other works. This was one of the reasons that many areas were not flooded.<\/p>\n<p>The State government\u2019s coordination with the Meteorological Department and its preparedness in tackling the <strong>post-landfall situation<\/strong> made a difference to the situation this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technology<\/strong> also played a key role in forecasting and in the circulation of the information.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is a need for the State government and the Meteorological department to <strong>coordinate<\/strong> and work together by leveraging <strong>technology, resources<\/strong> and improving the <strong>functioning<\/strong> to lessen the impact of cyclones in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cReady for the worst \u2013 Governments and agencies have shown better preparedness for cyclones\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a013th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster Management Relevance: measures needed to reduce the impact of cyclones News: Cyclone Mandous did not cause much damage to the people of Tamil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ready-for-the-worst-governments-and-agencies-have-shown-better-preparedness-for-cyclones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for the worst \u2013 Governments and agencies have shown better preparedness for cyclones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-218252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}