Priyanka Tajane

Covid-19: Managing the disaster in rural India

There is a need to rethink our disaster management policies and the top-down approach that it follows.

Posted on 17 May, 2020 09:45 PM

With an attempt to contain the spread of deadly Covid-19, Indian government had announced a complete nation-wide lockdown from March 25 onwards. For the first time, the provisions of the National Disaster Management Act, 2005, were invoked since the law came into being after the 2004 tsunami.

Drought in Marathwada (Image: Flickr Commons)

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