{"id":35408,"date":"2017-11-28T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=35408"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:16:27","slug":"multi-state-mega-mock-tsunami-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/multi-state-mega-mock-tsunami-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi State Mega Mock Tsunami Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently, Ministry of Home Affairs through National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) today conducted a first-of-its-kind multi-State mega mock exercise on tsunami preparedness covering the entire eastern coastline of the country. The exercise was conducted simultaneously by how many states?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 5<br \/>\n(b) 3<br \/>\n(c) 4<br \/>\n(d) 7<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On November 24, 2017, the Union Home Ministry conducted the first multi-state Mega Mock Tsunami Exercise-017 on Tsunami preparation on the entire East coast of the country.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise was conducted with corroboration of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS).<\/li>\n<li>Simulation exercises were conducted simultaneously in 35 coastal districts across four States of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh &amp; Tamil Nadu and Union Territory of Puducherry along with the entire East Coast.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of this exercise is to assess and improve the early warning and response mechanism to mitigate the impact of a high-intensity tsunami.<\/li>\n<li>This program is one of the programs organized on the occasion of Second World Tsunami Awareness Day celebrated on November 5, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Under this practice, the artificial landscape of Tsunami disaster was presented to evaluate preparation on Eastern Marine Coast.<\/li>\n<li>This practice is important because the eastern coast of India is susceptible to the view of cyclone and tsunami.<\/li>\n<li>The region was one of the worst affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.<\/li>\n<li>This exercise will go a long way in helping States\/UTs in updating their resources, procedures and plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173811<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently, Ministry of Home Affairs through National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) today conducted a first-of-its-kind multi-State mega mock exercise on tsunami preparedness covering the entire eastern coastline of the country. The exercise was conducted simultaneously by how many states? (a) 5 (b) 3 (c) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}