RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF A MAN MADE DISASTER: LESSON LEARNT FROM CAVED IN TIHRA TUNNEL, HIMACHAL PRADESH
Main Article Content
Abstract
Disaster Management is a strategic planning and procedure that is administered and employed to protect critical infrastructures from severe damages when natural or human made calamities and catastrophic occur. The paper covers the accident in the Tihra tunnel in Kiratpur Ner Chowk, the four lane expressway to pen down the human induced disaster in which a portion of under construction tunnel caved in and it was the first such rescue in which two of the three trapped individuals were evacuated safely after nine days of continuous operation. The paper analyses the strategy followed for the management as well as make suggestions for mitigating such incidents in future.
Article Details
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. As a general rule, permission should be sought from the rights holder to reproduce any substantial part of a copyrighted work. This includes any text, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, or other material from previously published sources.
This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.