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Awareness about Landslides,floods and cyclones

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 Landslides:  Landslides are caused by rain, earthquakes or other factors that make the slope unstable. They are of four types - fall and toppling, slides (rotational and translational), flows and creep. Warning systems Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) issues 'Very Heavy Rainfall Warning' when two days of cumulative rainfall exceeds 8 cm in a rain station, landslide warning is issued to the respective districts. Standard Operating Procedure Initially, Emergency time functions are activated by SEOC and DEOC. All necessary forces are pre-positioned as per the direction of the state incident commander, and the defense wing along with the central force is ready to move into any location in the state. BSNL and Police are deployed with all the proper equipment to set up emergency communication systems. Hospitals, CHCs and PHCs in the landslide prone villages of the district will function at full strength 24 hrs. as per requirements by making necessary human resource arrangement...
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Awareness about Community Respone Network(CRN)

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About: Community Response Network (CRN 101) is a simple course designed to give a student a basic understanding of disaster management and how government systems work in general. Objective: The objective of CRN 101 course is to educate and create awareness about various government systems involved in the mitigation of disaster management. It covers a brief introduction to various government systems and how these systems coordinate together at times of disasters.  What makes the Pupilfirst LMS special? Pupilfirst LMS is an open-source project, built right here in India, by the Pupilfirst team. Our team uses this LMS to run courses such as the one you're looking at right now. This lesson will give you a quick tour of the Pupilfirst LMS. To sign in, you have multiple options. When you first get started, you'll be visiting Coronasafe Knowledge Base, clicking Sign In, and choosing one of the many options to sign in. Sign-in using a third-party account, or with one-time link sent to ...
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Awareness about care

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 What is care? CARE is a comprehensive capacity and patient management tool, built specifically for disaster management purposes.  Care is open-source software with an MIT license Open source system: The entire codebase of this application is available to the public. The software that formes CARE is developed on an online portal called GitHub that hosts open-source software so that engineers from all across the world may view the codebase of the software and contribute towards the development of the same. MIT License: This is a license that explicitly allows anyone to use the code-base of the software in whatever way they deem fit. Any person could copy the code, modify it, reproduce it or do any such action without any consent from the developers of the codebase. Why is it required? Capacity Management: The Corona Pandemic has brought to limelight the shortfalls and limitations within our healthcare systems. One of the major shortfalls in our healthcare systems is that the st...
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