{"id":24185,"date":"2024-07-28T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:13:17","slug":"notified-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/notified-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Notified Disasters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Notified Disaster:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, the <strong>Disaster Management Act, 2005,<\/strong> defines a disaster as a &#8220;<strong>catastrophe, mishap, calamity or grave occurrence<\/strong>&#8221; arising from <strong>natural or man-made causes<\/strong> that results in substantial loss of life, destruction of property, or damage to the environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Currently 12 disasters <\/strong>are classified as Notified Disaster namely: Cyclone, drought, earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, hailstorm, landslide, avalanche, cloud burst, pest attack and frost and cold wave.<\/li>\n<li>Presently the notified list of disasters eligible for <strong>National Disaster Response Fund<\/strong>\/State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What are Heat waves?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave are when a place&#8217;s temperature exceeds <strong>40 degrees Celsius<\/strong> (\u00b0C) in the <strong>plains<\/strong>, <strong>37\u00b0C in coastal areas<\/strong>, and <strong>30\u00b0C in the hills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These temperature values are the thresholds established by the IMD for the declaration of heatwaves in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about National Disaster Management Authority\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) plays a crucial role in laying down policies, plans, and guidelines for disaster management in India.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to <strong>promote a national resolve to mitigate the damage<\/strong> and destruction caused by natural and man-made disasters through sustained and collective efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is constituted under Section 46 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, supplements SDRF of a State, in case of a disaster of severe nature, provided adequate funds are not available in SDRF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/natural-disasters\/centre-has-no-plans-to-include-heatwave-as-notified-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Centre has no plans to include heatwave as \u2018notified disaster\u2019<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notified disasters are eligible for National Disaster Response Fund\/State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}