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State Specific Disaster – Kerala
March 15 , 2024
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- Kerala declared man-animal conflict as a state-specific disaster, becoming the first state in the country to do so.
- At present, managing man-animal conflict is the responsibility of the forest department, which acts as per the Wild Life Protection Act.
- Once the issue is declared a state-specific disaster, the onus to deal with it shifts to the state disaster management authority.
- It is powered by the Disaster Management Act, so they can take quicker and more decisive action.
- District collectors can directly intervene in their capacity as the chairman of the district disaster body.
- In 2015, Odisha had declared snakebite a state-specific disaster.
- In 2020, Kerala declared Covid as a state specific disaster.
- Besides, heat waves, sunburn and sunstroke have been declared so in 2019, the phenomenon of soil piping in 2017, and lightning and coastal erosion in 2015.
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