{"id":252395,"date":"2023-07-17T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=252395"},"modified":"2023-07-17T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:21:55","slug":"lightning-not-a-natural-disaster-says-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lightning-not-a-natural-disaster-says-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning not a natural disaster, says Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cLightning not a natural disaster, says Centre<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 17th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Government <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is not in favour of declaring Lightning a natural disaster as deaths caused by it can be prevented by making people aware of safety steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Lightning?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lightning-strikes-in-india-impacts-and-management\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Deaths due to Lightning:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data show that 2,880 people died in lightning strikes in 2021.The deaths made up 40% of all accidental deaths caused by \u201cforces of nature\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The frequency of lightning was the highest in northeastern States and in West Bengal, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Odisha and Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the number of deaths is higher in the central Indian States of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Steps taken to prevent Lightning deaths:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is among only five countries in the world that has an early warning system for lightning \u2014 the forecast is available from five days to up to three hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Is Lightning categorized as a Natural Disaster in India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Lightning is not categorized as a Natural Disaster in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several states have been demanding that lightning deaths be covered as a natural disaster. Once this is notified, the victims will be entitled to compensation from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).The Centre makes 75% of the contribution to the SDRF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyclone, drought, earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, hailstorm, landslip, avalanche, cloudburst, pest attack, frost and cold wave are now considered disasters under the SDRF.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLightning not a natural disaster, says Centre\u201d \u00a0published in The Hindu on 17th July 2023 What is the News? The Union Government is not in favour of declaring Lightning a natural disaster as deaths caused by it can be prevented by making people aware of safety steps.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lightning-not-a-natural-disaster-says-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lightning not a natural disaster, says Centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-252395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","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\/252395","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}