Disaster is a sudden calamity bringing great damage and devastation to life property. The caused by disasters occur in the form of floods drought volcanic eruptions cyclones conflagration. From time they keep reminding man nature. Man proud his mind intellect achievements has often found himself helpless face disasters. We tend forget that all human beings are children nature first last. India vast country much its area prone disaster one kind or other. Of total land mass Earthquakes. Forty million hectares flood prone suspectible droughts eight thousand kilometers our coastline threatened cyclones. In South Indian resulted from heavy rainfall annual North East monsoon November December. More than people were killed over lakh displaced affected State Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh. It most recent example how current 'mitigating mechanisms' nowhere near vision being effective. God forbids worse situation can anytime. There four aspects Management: means information preparedness response mitigation. last rebuilding resettling uprooted population restoring normalcy. Awareness about important factor Management. This keeps alert when it strikes. Effective Warning System regulation activity definitely help minimising impact. so ill-equipped Richter earthquake could not communicated US Geological Survey countries Ocean. operational satellites. two hundred seismic observatories country. have some stations. In spite this presently neither emergency capacity nor effective warning system. Government enacted Management Act . Subsequently National Authority under Prime Minister Chief state formed. central relief commissioner Nodal Officer who handles related problems at national level. Under act every district required management cell headed District Collecter. Eleventh Finance commission ensured each own Calamity Relief Fund. Central shall contribute remaining share will be funded Government. th Commission recommended upto funds available Response Fund used for occurrences which outlined comprehensive framework disaster. deals with achieve coordination among Prevention Strategy cooperation people. Five year plan rightly observes investing prevention far more economical socially beneficial expenditure on rehabilitation. believes risk reduction needs 'whole government' whole society approach. aftermath Tsunami there been paradigm shift approach However readiness quality incomplete until civil society. So planning revolves solely around government strategies. Trained local teams should equipped swiftly efficiently any emergency. A fair acquisition needed now as agitations across underlined need equitable acquisition. present unrest farmers obviously their rising expectations compensation other benefits deprived ancestral land. But same industrialists urbanisation addressed rationally. fact efficient use