DISASTER MANAGEMENT- LEARN FROM CHINA
We all are aware about the floods in Bihar, which has led over 2 million rendered homeless, hundreds dead and vast areas of property damaged-- this is India's Katrina. Yet rescue and relief measures remained painfully short, the National Disaster Management Authority is still ill equipped to make a substantial difference and our national and state leaders continue to play politics over the graves of dead people in floods. We as a nation, it saddens me to say, still do not seem to learn from our mistakes and therefore condemned to repeat them.
Take the way China handled its spate of crisis before the Olympics. When the Tibet issue blew up, the chinese leaders made a hash by using the baton and the gun to brutally quell protests. They hardly seemed to care, what the world thought. But soon after when earthquake struck in may, 2008, and over 15 million people were badly affected, the entire nation acted as one and won the world's praise. Chinese President visited the spot personally and supervised relief operations. People from all over China volunteered to help out and donations came pouring in. It was a forerunner for the Olympics success to follow.
In contrast, India's political leadership let us down on 2 of the major crisis that could have shown what a great country we really are. The Jammu & Kashmir crisis was allowed to boil for so long that it succeeded in pushing the valley to the brink and only now the govt has been able to put some balm. All right, so J & K was our Tibet. Should not we as a nation have learned from it, so that when the next crisis hit us, we would react as the Chinese nation did ? Bihar's sorrow was our chance as a nation to show that our hearts beats as one and that we, as a nation, are capable of compassion, generosity and responsibility. We could have helped Bihar in every possible manner as far as relief and healthcare was concerned, but we failed everytime.
Our leaders should take classes from the Chinese leadership. They would be most glad to give our leaders classes to nail us down in the eyes of the world.
Take the way China handled its spate of crisis before the Olympics. When the Tibet issue blew up, the chinese leaders made a hash by using the baton and the gun to brutally quell protests. They hardly seemed to care, what the world thought. But soon after when earthquake struck in may, 2008, and over 15 million people were badly affected, the entire nation acted as one and won the world's praise. Chinese President visited the spot personally and supervised relief operations. People from all over China volunteered to help out and donations came pouring in. It was a forerunner for the Olympics success to follow.
In contrast, India's political leadership let us down on 2 of the major crisis that could have shown what a great country we really are. The Jammu & Kashmir crisis was allowed to boil for so long that it succeeded in pushing the valley to the brink and only now the govt has been able to put some balm. All right, so J & K was our Tibet. Should not we as a nation have learned from it, so that when the next crisis hit us, we would react as the Chinese nation did ? Bihar's sorrow was our chance as a nation to show that our hearts beats as one and that we, as a nation, are capable of compassion, generosity and responsibility. We could have helped Bihar in every possible manner as far as relief and healthcare was concerned, but we failed everytime.
Our leaders should take classes from the Chinese leadership. They would be most glad to give our leaders classes to nail us down in the eyes of the world.
posted by vaneet kundra at
Sunday, September 28, 2008
2 Comments:
the problem with our nation is that we never stand up in unity when some crisis hit us..why??/
this is becoz of divide& rule policies of our leaders which divide us in the name of religon whereas countries like China suceed coz they stand united
Dear Lavi,
Thanks for your comment. Today we need a Hitler to take on the country, head on. In China, they have hitler policies. Everyone has to follow the leaders directives. We need someone like that. Read my latest article about inviting Generals.
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