Answer: Disaster is a natural calamity which affects the lives of the human beings and other living beings. It destroys the property, agricultural field, forests, and causes other types of harms.
Explanation:
Natural disaster reduction:
Main duty of the state is to take preventive measures to prevent the loss of life and property. This can be done by creation of shelter homes in cyclone prone areas, collection of disaster fund, collaborating with the government to seek help during calamity, storage of food, water, and other requirements during disaster, creation of strong walls near the expected flood, and others.
Precaution: Conduction of mock drills, pre-planning between government and the public to reduce the severity of the natural hazards, precautions that can be taken at the family level that is how one can protect all members of the family during hazard by developing infrastructure of the house that remains secure during hazard, instructing children not to use electric switches during any hazard as there are chances of getting shock.
Awareness: Government should create awareness about natural hazards among people in hazard prone or non-hazard prone areas. Some people should volunteer in teaching people precautions and preparations that can be done to save themselves during hazards like the use of raincoat instead of cotton clothes during flood, stay away from electric poles, making a preparatory bag that contain food, water, medicines, money and others.
