Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the extent to which disaster preparedness is determine. A disaster can be as an occurrence either nature or manmade that cause human suffering and creates human needs that victim cannot alleviate without assistance. Every city is prone to a few hazards like flood, cyclone, water scarcity, epidemics, and earthquake, and fire, chemical and industrial hazards. All over the world rapid urbanization is taking place. According to World Bank by the year 2025, 80% of world population will be residing in urban areas. This is most critical and disastrous situation. Disasters has got two phases which is required to be managed, pre disaster and post disaster phases. Both faces can be further divided in to the risk identification, mitigation, risk transfer, and preparedness, emergency response, reconstruction and rehabilitation. The contribution of this project to the body of knowledge is to provide a baseline data of what is the current status of disaster preparedness in Chhattisgarh state.

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