: Saturday, 29 March 2025 12:08 pm
In the year 2004, 14 countries of the Indian and Pacific Ocean were affected by a tsunami in the Indian Ocean. In this, more than 2 lakh 30 thousand people died and such painful marks of destruction were left behind that even after twenty years, the pain of this harm is green. But amidst this pain and pain, a new story was born – the story of progress and tolerance! On the morning of 26 December 2004, the fisherman of Kerala Srikumar, went to the sea for fishing. But while working, he suddenly saw strange discrepancies in the signs coming from Echo Sounder. Srikumar recalls the day, “The sea waves were unusually intensified, which was making me very difficult to get the fishing net out. I felt that something is wrong. I lashed the boat near my mouth, and somehow I reached there and reached the side of the shore.” The devastation had started. The house was empty, people had left, and many people were trying to understand the situation with this upheaval. “The tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the Indian and Pacific Oceans had created chaos in 14 countries, which killed more than 2 lakh 30 thousand people and the huge levels were held at the world. 20 years have passed for that disaster and now there is a different scene of progress and preparation in this area. © UNESCO preparation, the new era of the new era 2004 tsunami, a badly affected India, has strongly strengthened its disaster preparations, through scientific progress, pre-warning system and community-deception programs and schemes. At this time, India’s former warning system is one of the most reliable systems of the world, which not only within the country, but also Sri Lankan, Bangladesh and Thailand, many countries of the Asia, and many countries of the constituency. Provides assistance to these comrades UNESCO International partnerships like the Inter-Government Oceanian Commission (IOC) have provided the facility to share the knowledge globally available globally, which has helped the country to take time pre-action and increase the capacity to predict and management of tsunami. IOC-UNESCO Secretariat, Dr. T. Srinivas Kumar says, “Provide a glimpse of the global partnership,“ UNESCO Srinivas Kumar says, “UNESCO-IOC to provide a rapist. It is necessary for the global ‘system of systems’. Ocean Image Bank/David Gross Tsunami Preparation Program: The community is at the center of meditation – the tsunami preparation program, which is a unique initiative launched by UNESCO -IOC to increase community competence. In the Kendrapara district of Odisha, villages like Kaitha and Rajnagar have become the ideal of preparation for cyclone and cyclone. 28 communities of India have been declared ‘tsunami competent’ and many other villages are very close to achieving this feat. Narmada Patra, the community volunteer of the village, says, “Earlier I myself, I did not understand the meaning of tsunami properly. But now, I teach them every month, I teach them where to go to such a situation, what to go to the situation of such disasters, and what to go in the situation of disaster How to take care of every child, evacuation route and safe shelter today. ”UNESCO and Incois, recognizing the important role of the media in the preparation of the disaster, organized the initial warning center for journalists in India and the ‘tsunami ready’ community. Also on these warnings, the ‘ready for tsunami’ was also demonstrated by the community’s response. Learning from the past, future preparation 2004 tsunami gave difficult lessons about the widespread impacts of disasters. During the rescue action, it was understood that there has been a lot of damage in addition to the immediate loss of know-goods. Schools and infrastructure were destroyed, clean water was destroyed and displaced families faced serious problems like lack of food grains and health crisis. These challenges revealed the importance of overall disaster management, which could not only pay attention to the immediate stories, but also on long -term improvement. India is focusing on developing the initial warning system of multi -dominant threats. This progress matches the United Nations Ocean decade tsunami program, whose purpose is to promote international cooperation to improve the global level warning system and community readiness. Under this initiative, under this initiative, there is a solution to increase the basic structure related to monitor Included. Two decades after the prostitute, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the strength of nature and a rigorous example of humanity’s weakness. But at the same time, the progress achieved through collective action is also revealed. The purpose of UNESCO’s ‘tsunami prepared program’ is to create awareness and preparations, encourage cooperation among the stakeholders and establish the identity of communities that meet major security indicators. With the commitment of the program to train wealthy communities, the program will help to ensure safe future for serving by 2030. © UNESCO