Topic: Disaster and disaster management;
4. Natural disasters generate significant fiscal risks, severely impacting developing countries. Prime Minister’s Ten Point Agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction majorly aims to address the same. Critically analyze. (250 words)
Reference: ndma.gov.in
Why the question:
The question is part of the static syllabus of General studies paper – 3.
Key Demand of the question:
To analyze to what extent PM’s ten point agenda is effective in reducing fiscal risks associated with disasters.
Directive:
Critically analyze – When asked to analyze, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary. When ‘critically’ is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, one needs to look at the good and bad of the topic and give a fair judgment.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start by briefly writing about PM ten point agenda which seeks have a concrete ideas for prioritized implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Body:
Mention the fiscal impact of natural disasters on developing countries with examples.
In short and an evaluated manner, analyze the major points for PM’s 10 point agenda. All development sectors must imbibe the principles of disaster risk management, Risk Coverage, Role of women, Investment in risk mapping, leveraging technology, harnessing social media ecosystem and capacity building of locals etc.
Bring out the positives aspect of the agenda such as think big and innovatively to widen the risk insurance cover, greater involvement and leadership of women, undertaking multi-hazard risk assessments and leveraging technology to enhance the efficiency etc.
Mention the drawback of ten point agenda such as: rhetorical in nature and no fixed framework to achieve it, Risk Coverage is done with existing schemes like PM-FBY, PM-JDY, PM-SBY and nothing new has been introduced etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude with a way forward.
