{"id":26739,"date":"2024-09-21T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26739"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:04:18","slug":"exercise-aikya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-aikya\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise AIKYA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Exercise AIKYA:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aikya,&#8221; meaning&#8221; &#8220;Oneness &#8221; in Tamil, reflects the exercise&#8217;s aim to <strong>integrate India&#8217;s Disaster Management community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It brought together key stakeholders from across Peninsular India to <strong>enhance disaster preparedness and response capabilities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The exercise witnessed participation from <strong>six southern states\/UTs<\/strong>: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Puducherry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key organizations involved :<\/strong> India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-national-centre-for-ocean-information-services-incois\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)<\/a>, Central Water Commission (CWC), and Forest Survey of India (FSI); <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/geological-survey-of-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geographical Survey of India (GSI)<\/a> and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).<\/li>\n<li>It simulated emergency situations to test roles and responsibilities, fostered discussions on technologies and trends in disaster relief, and reviewed lessons from recent operations.<\/li>\n<li>It addressed issues including tsunamis, landslides, floods, cyclones, industrial incidents, and forest fires, with focus on recent events in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad, and Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Disaster management?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to a systematic and strategic approach aimed at safeguarding critical infrastructure from potential damages resulting from natural or human-made calamities and catastrophic events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2056956#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDMA AND INDIAN ARMY SOUTHERN COMMAND HOST MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DISASTER MANAGEMENT EXERCISE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise AIKYA brought together key stakeholders from across Peninsular India to enhance disaster preparedness and response capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26739","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\/26739","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=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}