Disaster Management for UPSC CSE GS-III Preparation || Dr. G. P. Ganapathy || PART - I
Channel: Shankar IAS Academy
Date: 04/10/2021

Dear aspirants, Dr. G. P. Ganapathy is a renowned expert who has completed his Doctoral Research in Earthquake Microzonation for Chennai City at Anna University, Chennai, India. He has served as Director for Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India from the year 2015 to 2020. Dr. Ganapathy is a member for the State Disaster Management Plan Core group, State Early Warning Committee Member, and Consultant for the preparation of District Level Multi-Disaster Plan, Government of Tamil Nadu. At present he is a Professor at the Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
He has published 60 research papers in reputed International/National Journals, and presented more than 45 papers in International and National workshops/conferences and he is Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member for 8 International Journals. He is known for creating awareness on Disaster Education, Space Applications in Disaster Mitigation and Management to the public and scientific community across the globe, through various lectures for the last 13 Years.
Through this session, he will discuss elaborately about disasters, types of disasters, issues in disaster management, and India’s initiatives in disaster management. The session will be helpful to the aspirants throughout their preparation journey. 
The session will be dealing with basics like current disaster management scenarios in India, initiatives taken in India, and scenarios abroad. 
In the second session which will come up shortly, you will know how after becoming a public administrator you can better use your basic background be it engineering, science, or humanities in disaster management and deal effectively with disasters.

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