Tsunami Ready

IN NEWS:

• The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO has recognised two villages of Odisha as “Tsunami-Ready Communities”.
• With this recognition, India is the first country to implement “Tsunami-Ready” programme in the Indian Ocean Region; and Odisha is the first State.
• The villages are Venkatraipur in Ganjam district and Noliasahi in Jagatsinghpur, where the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) has now implemented the Tsunami-Ready programme.

About Tsunami Ready:

• It is a community performance-based programme initiated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO to promote tsunami preparedness through active collaboration of public, community leaders, and national and local emergency management agencies.
• The primary objective of the ‘tsunami ready’ programme is to improve coastal community's preparedness for tsunami emergencies, to minimize the loss of life and property and to ensure a structural and systematic approach in building community preparedness,
• Tsunami Ready in India is implemented by a National Board (Ministry of Earth Sciences- MoES) under the Chairmanship of Director, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Centre (INCOIS), which INCOIS is the nodal agency to provide tsunami advisories to India.

PRELIMS QUESTION

”Tsunami ready” is a program implemented internationally by:
(a)International Maritime organization
(b)UNESCO
(c)U.S. Agency for International Development
(d)ASEAN

Answer to prelims question