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Relief teams during numerous disasters in the sub-continent. Our
gC first was when teams were sent to (he 1971 Bangladesh War when
millions crossed the border and were housed in makeshift refugee
camps in West Bengal. The Bhopal Gas tragedy was yet another
devastating experience for teams from Bangalore. ‘The Bangalore
Response’ sent teams to coastal Andhra Pradesh following the
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Preface

The following is a collection of papers presented by eminent
experts during the annual course on disaster management
conducted over the last tew years by the National Institute of
Advanced Studies, Bangalore, for senior IAS officers from across
the country.
We place (Ins selection before the general reader administrators,
politicians, academies and future participants of the NIAS course,
in the hope that it will b? found useful and interesting. We believe
that the collective experience of the contributors can serve to
generate^new insight'- and methodologies m lacking disasters in
the country. A key lesson is while it is easy to ghbl) blame our
large population, it is administrative, regulatory and policy gaps
which need to be addressed urgently

We would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of
Ms Gayathri Lokhande both in conducting (he courses and in
preparing thi> volume.

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