Causes and Disaster Risk Reduction Measures for Hydrometerological Disaster in Uttarakhand, India

Since the last 15 years, the frequency and severity of hydro-meteorological disasters (HMD) in Uttarakhand have increased. In terms of the economy and society, these catastrophic events have taken a heavy toll on the human population, resources, and state infrastructure. The number of fatalities and property damage caused by hazards in Uttarakhand regions has increased as a result of climatic, geological, and human population growth. Unscientific and need-based development activities are causing an imbalance in the natural ecosystem and making the environment more vulnerable to natural disasters. For better understand the trend of HMD, all district of Uttarakhand have been divided into 3 zones according to altitude of Himalaya and with the help of bar chart between HMD event, location zone and time of HMD event in 10 years’ interval. After interpretation concluded the trend of HMD, also find out the badly affected districts of Uttarakhand. Also conducted a comprehensive analysis and study of the causes, time factor, and Disaster Risk Reduction measures for HMD in this paper and concluded that these disasters are difficult to predict and control due to their nature, but we can only minimise the impact of HMD by strongly implementing Pre-disaster mitigation measures such as proper planning, public awareness, training, knowledge of mitigation measures, structural and non structural measures, monitoring the hazard prone areas and honestly follow the environmental and disaster mitigation rules by all of us including government as well as private developers with an early warning system measures.