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14.1.1 Syllabus for Disaster Management

14.1.1.1 ClaSS IX

• Introduction to Disaster Management

• Common Hazards-Prevention and Mitigation

• Manmade Disasters-Nuclear, Biological and Chemical

• Community Based Disaster Management

14.1.1.2 ClaSS X

• Tsunami

• Safer Construction Practices
• Survival Skills

• Alternate Communication Systems during disasters

• Sharing Responsibility

14.1.1.3 ClaSS XI

• GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 14 : DisAsTER MAnAgEMEnT

o Natural Hazards and Disasters: Causes, Consequences and Management
 Floods, Cloudbursts

 Droughts: types and impact

 Earthquakes and Tsunami

 Cyclones: factors and impact

 Landslides

• SOCIOLOGY

o Environment and Society

 Ecology and Society
 Environmental Crisis and Social Responses

The schools have been advised to transact this curriculum in such a way so as to provide an
experience to the students of Disaster Management by ample use of case studies, projects,

success stories, anecdotes, regular participation in mock drills and minimum emphasis on
learning of concepts.

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