Disaster risk management should be viewed as a core development issue. This would require strengthening institutional systems as well as empowering communities to become more resilient. Development of disaster response system at taluk and block levels would help in effective risk mitigation, according to Kamal Kishore, Member, Ministry of Home Affairs, reports The Hindu.
In an address from Collector T.N. Hariharan he said "...that building structures became the cause of destruction and death during natural disasters. Building codes were not followed properly. In developing countries, only 30 per cent of built infrastructure were constructed as per building codes, while semi-permanent and other buildings did not follow any plan."
Kamal Kishore has also said "We need to take naturalness out of the natural disasters. We must not see disasters as one-off events."