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DEATHQUAKE;
RESCUE AND RELIEF
Operation
Salvage Gujarat
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Theory
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Crisis
Management Group is made up of cabinet secretary and 20 other secretaries.
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Natural Calamity Contingency Funds Panel is headed by finance
minister |
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Natural Disaster Management Division is part of the Agriculture
Ministry. |
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Practice
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Met at 1.30 p.m. on January 26 and began moving men and
material to Gujarat. |
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This body, also comprising deputy chairman of Plan panel,
released Rs 500 crore. |
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Time
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| 8.46:
Earthquake
in Gujarat, tremors in Delhi. Director, seismology, alarmed.
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| 8.50:
Quake
epicentre located at Bhuj by scientists in Delhi. R-Day festivities
begin. |
| 11.45:
Cabinet
secretary told, tells armed forces, calls crisis group at 1.30 p.m.
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| 22.00:
20
Delhi doctors
arrive in Bhuj, spend night in car as there are no tents |
| 6.00
(Jan 27):
Aircraft
comes with communication equipment to Bhuj. Relief begins |
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Told of quake at 8.56 a.m. set up control room, sent medicos
to Bhuj 7.30 p.m. |
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Theory
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Disaster Management Committee is the top agency, headed by the secretary
of the individual state. |
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District-level Coordination Committee is actually the most important,
front-line agency. Under the collector it becomes first rescuer. |
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Practice
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While this panel was duly formed and a control room set
up on January 26 morning, little was done for 36 hours. |
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Districts reacted with varying degrees of promptness in
Gujarat. In ravaged Kutch, the collector contracted Gandhinagar 17
hours after the quake. |
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Time
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8.46
Earth shakes. Tremors for three minutes. Gujarat's trauma unfolds.
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9.00
State
can't identify epicentre. Telecom links with districts collapse.
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9.45
Control room opened in Gandhinagar. But phones don't work. Rumours
rife.
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22.30
Contact finally established with four district collectors,
though not with Delhi.
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3.00
(Jan 27)
Met Department in Delhi finally spoken to. Says epicentre is near
Bhuj. |
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FLOW
OF FUNDS
How
the money moves in times of disasters
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PHOTO GALLERY
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The Pain And Horror
The cataclysmic
quake on India's
52nd Republic Day served to highlight
the gaping holes in the nation's
disaster management ability. Caught in celebrations, it was five and a
half hours before Delhi officials even met.
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COLUMNS |
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 Downsizing
is not about getting rid of lower division clerks but shrinking the cabinet
and thus the government, says
V Shankar Aiyar
in Au
ContrAiyar
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INTERVIEW |
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This is just the beginning, V.K. Aatre, who
is at the core of the LCA action, tells India Today Principal Correspondent
Stephen David in an exclusive
Interview.
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DESPATCHES |
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A delay in
the implementation of an eco-development project in Ranthambhore forces
the World Bank to drastically cut aid. But the Rajasthan Government is
yet to learn from its mistakes, writes India Today's Principal Correspondent
Rohit
Parihar in
Despatches.
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