The document discusses Village Disaster Management Committees (VDMC) and their role in managing disasters at the local village level in India. It defines disaster management and explains that VDMCs are committees of cautious villagers that make important measures to manage disasters. They have various teams like early warning, evacuation, search and rescue, and health teams. VDMC members should be first responders, attentive, informed about disasters, well-trained, and raise community awareness. The roles of VDMCs are to create awareness, guide disaster preparation and management, rescue people during disasters, reduce impacts, and treat affected people after disasters.

1. Social science
Disaster management

2. CONTENTS:
• INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS DISASTER MANAGEMENT?
• WHAT IS VDMC?
• WHO DOES WHAT IN A DISASTER?
• PLANNING PROCESS OF VDMP
• TEAMS OF VDMC
• HOW A MEMBER OF VDMC SHOULD BE?
• WHAT ARE THE ROLES OF VDMC?
• WORKING OF VDMC
• CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION:
Nowadays disasters has become more and are
occurring often.
They should be managed properly to save the
lives of affected people. Let us see the
management of disasters in village areas.

6. WHAT IS DISASTER MANAGEMENT?
Disaster Management can be defined as the
organization and management of resources and
responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian
aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness,
response and recovery in order to lessen the impact
of disasters.

8. WHAT IS VDMC?
(1) Village Disaster Management Committee is
a committee in which some of the cautious people of a
village make some important measures for the management
of disasters coming their village.
(2) Village Disaster Management Plan is
defined as the planning process of the VDMC.

9. WHO DOES WHAT IN A DISASTER?
• The mayor is responsible at the administrative level for the smooth running
of the response effort.
• The fire service is the linchpin in disaster response. The fire chief is
charged with the operational management of the response effort.
• Regional accident and disaster medical teams do immediate actions after
disaster.
• The police will ensure that the fire and ambulance services can do their
job.
• The Municipal services play an important role in disaster response,
especially when it comes to the after-effects. If whole streets or
neighbourhoods have to be evacuated, for instance, the municipality is
responsible for the residents’ immediate welfare.

10. PLANNING PROCESS OF VDMP:

11. •The VDMC has a variety of teams for playing
different roles before , after and during a
disaster.
•Based on the skills required,the villagers decide on
the volunteers to be a part of in each of the
teams.
•Let us see some of the teams of VDMC.

12. TEAMS OF VDMC:
•Early warning and communication team
•Evacuation and Temporary Shelter Management team
•Search and Rescue team
•Health and First aid team
•Relief coordination team
•Water and Sanitation team

13. HOW A MEMBER OF VDMC SHOULD BE?
•Member of VDMC should be the first responder for
people’s needs.
•He/She should be attentive always.
•He/She should be a big source of information about disasters
and their managements.
•He/She should be well-trained.
•He/She should awarness amongst the people of their
village.

14. WHAT ARE THE ROLES OF VDMC?
•The committee should
talk
discuss
converse
ponder
and do everything before , during and
after any disaster.

15. •It creates awareness to the people before disaster.
•It guides the preparation of management of the
disaster properly.
•It tries to rescue people during disaster.
•It reduces the impact of the disaster.
•It is responsible for the treatment of affected
people after disaster.

17. WORKING OF VDMC:

18. CONCLUSION:
In India , the disaster management systems
are not enough according to my opinion. As disasters
have increased , the management teams should also
increase to rescue the people. We should become
more aware of disasters and try to prevent them as
much as possible.

19. THANK YOU,
PROJECT DONE BY,
R.ANGALA PARAMESHWARI,
9th STD,
9101