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India: Odisha bonds with start-ups to prepare itself for future disasters

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By Nirmalya Behera

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[...] Realising its coastline's vulnerability to tropical cyclones and storms, the Odisha government aims to beef up its disaster management apparatus. Its latest effort is to engage homegrown start-ups to complement the government efforts in managing disasters.

A brainstorming session was recently conducted by Start-up Odisha (under the department of MSME, Government of Odisha) for providing a platform to understand the strides made in this space.

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Start-up Odisha is now actively working to connect such start-ups with relevant government departments and agencies, and is exploring opportunities for collaboration.

“Every problem creates an opportunity. Odisha being a disaster prone state provides space for the start-ups to create technology that has a huge scope. There are enormous opportunities for the start-ups to make business and creating jobs. Fani has created a damage which has given opportunities to build disaster resilient infrastructure and solutions. It is the start ups who can provide solutions to people as well as to authorities”, said Prasanta Biswal, evangelist, Start Up Odisha.

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Themes Capacity development Private sector Governance Disaster risk management
Country and region India

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