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Sports Journalism

Sports journalism is a type of composing that provides details regarding
brandishing themes and rivalries. Sports journalism is the fundamental
component of numerous news media associations. Sports journalists
consistently face more due date weight than different journalists in
light of the fact that games will in general happen late in the day and
closer to the due dates numerous associations must watch.
 However they
are relied upon to utilize indistinguishable devices from news
journalists, and to maintain a similar expert and moral guidelines. They
should take care not to demonstrate predisposition for any group.
Sports journalists work in all media, including print, TV broadcasting
and the web.

Benefits of leaning a foreign language

Introduction
A different language is a different vision to the life.
Federico Fellini
Learning a language other than your own native language has
always its benefit. It just not been advantage to your resume but is also handy
for travelling making one smarter and make better to connect with world. Many
studies have suggested that communicating in different language has a great
benefit.  It is a great asset to mental
awareness supporting cognitive process. Not only this, the brain of a bilingual
people operate is not the same as other, they have different way to
function.  They have another mental level
which bilingual people lack in caliber. 
That is why learning a foreign language has its benefit as it makes your
brain sharper and stronger.
 Few are the Benefits
of learning foreign language.
One doesn’t learn languages in one go and it became
powerful. The brain has to put extra effort for improving the functionality of
your brain. The brain challenges itself to learn, negotiate meaning, and
communicate in different system. It means the learner has skills that boost the
ability of solving tasks as well.It builds multitasking skills.
Toddlers and children are very much skilled in catching new
words and switching between two systems that includes speech, writing, and
structure. Switching between the languages makes a good multitasking as it’s
easy to switch between the languages.
It enhances the memory power
A good learner often likes its brain to do exercise because
it functions well in that case. Learning something obeys the memorizing rule
and a set of vocabulary that assist a learner to gain mental strength and
stretches mental muscles.  This totally
improves an entire memory, that proves that multilingual are better learner and
remembering list and arrangements. They could easily catch names and address,
says many studies. They are also veteran at retaining shopping and merchandise
good list names, and directions.
Help in improving decision making skills
According to a study from the University of Chicago,
bilinguals tend to make more rational decisions. Every language has its own set
of jargon and glitches and subtle implication included in the vocabulary that
influences the judgments. It makes any bilingual more confident on its decision
making skills. They are quick in checking whether initial conclusion stand up.
They hardly become biased and subconsciously influence the judgment.
 What motivates native
English speakers to study foreign languages?
It is said that language is best learned between the
sheets.  If a learner has to study a
language he/she   better aim of a culture
and its diversity. Also help in getting a good knowledge of society are
interactively motivated.   Language and its aptitude is the main tool
that builds for long relationships and meaningful provides communication.
Linguistic studies show that integrative motivation always yields faster and
more effective language learning results than any other type of learning.
Learner studying language can achieve their goal more instantly than others as
they are more motivated. Therefore, tracing its origins or evolution is the
most difficult thing. If we want to know when humans started walking upright,
we can dig fossils.  It helps in professional
or personal accomplishment of anything faster than others as professional or
personal accomplishment.
 Motivation to learn a
language is not problematic but if a learner has a zero cultural curiosity then
it’s hard for him/her to learn. The learning process will be more difficult
than for those with integrative motivation and difficult to target or even
prejudice. Desire to communicate and accelerate language learning that can
motivate one to learn a language.  It is
also a basic need for a cross cultural friendship and one can fuel integrative
motivation.  It is simply a gesture of
respect toward other nation and in-law or distant relative with no English
ability can also motivate language learning.
Conclusion
Learning can never be useless be it a foreign language or
any other type.  It hand help building a
long and friendly relationship that unites two nations.  It may not 
easy but not that difficult to do. Once you learn a language it also
helps both professionally and personally and help in getting a good job role in
different country.

Preparing for the Interview! (part 1)

Interview process is normally one of the last
rounds of the selection process. Be it college or job or even getting
admissions for your children in some schools- you have to pass through an
interview round. It involves face to face interaction with current employees of
the organization who have held the roles similar to what you have applied for,
or they have an experience in that area. Since this is a face to face round, a
lot of things become visible which could have been hidden during written tests
or other phases of candidate screening. While most of us are scared of this
additional stage, this is not necessarily a bad thing. You have a perfect
opportunity to showcase the things about you which you could not show in
earlier stages of the selection process. You can show the interviewers what
sets you apart and why they should prefer selecting you over other similar or
even higher scoring candidates of the earlier rounds.

The interviews mainly are of two types.
Technical and behavioural. There can be multiple rounds for each of these or
within the same round both the aspects of the interview can be handled. This
varies with the organization you are interviewing for and the level you are
interviewing for. If you are interviewing for above manager level, you should
be prepared to handle more than 4-5 rounds of the interviews. So, it is obvious
how important interview plays nowadays in candidate selection. Love it or hate
it but you can not ignore it. Therefore, it is only wise to be prepared for the
interviews.

Technical Round of
Interview

The technical rounds are not much different
from pen and paper rounds except that the interviewer tends to improvise on the
questions and understand your thinking process. On a real job, one can not
expect to deal only with the situations that have come in at some point of
time. There are new challenges every day, therefore it is a fair ask to
evaluate the thinking process of the candidate. Therefore, our advice is
definitely to learn your subject well. You anyway did that for pen and paper
rounds.
But the one extra thing, that we would like to
advice you, is to showcase your thinking process. Take the interviewer through
your thought process and approached the problem. Of course you need to be clear
and organized in your thinking. Only a clear and systematic thinking can be
translated into solving newer problems at work. Therefore, organize your
thought process and practice to express it in a systematic way to your
interviewers. If you are making any assumptions about the question asked,
mention them clearly or ask your interviewer if you can make those assumptions.
If you can showcase your thought process to
your interviewer, there is nothing to bother you in the technical round. Be
calm, and even if you are not sure about the final answer, proceed in steps, in
a systematic way to the most reasonable conclusion you can think.
Good Luck!

Being Human: An evolutionary Story (Part 2)

Introduction
In the earlier chapter we saw how a small
counter-intuitive evolution that shifted our voice box, probably due to
inherent habit of gossiping, made us better at communicating. Apart from
biological evolution like opposing thumbs, upright walking; our ability to
communicate was the first turning point in history of human evolution.

Chapter 2: Communication and Co-ordination

With shifted voice box, we developed ability to
produce hundreds of sounds. More complex and organized than any other animals.
This enormously improved our ability to communicate.
 After
sounds, probably came word and sentences. Writing technique, even in pictorial
forms, came much later as far as we can tell. But we already had evolving brain
and memory. So even without our inability to communicate with written words, we
could easily store massive memories compared to other animals. We started
planning, we started coordinating, we started creating processes. This
enormously improved our ability to work together. From a group of 10-20
individuals like most animals, we became a group of thousands of individuals.
And now we could achieve what smaller groups could not even imagine.
We could hunt the biggest animals.
Archaeological evidences show humans hunted even largest mammoths, boars and
wildest and scariest animals. We could clear our paths, build safe parameters
define our territories. We passed them on as stories and advices. We started
communicating with each other. We formed very large groups who coordinated
according to set processes and wisdom of hundreds of man-years.

What makes us special?

What makes us special. Co-ordination or
communication is not unique to us. All animals, even plants communicate in
their own way. Bees can communicate miles about discovery of nectar. Birds can
communicate spotting of lion etc. Sharks can smell slightest traces of blood in
an ocean. But these all instances of communication are very limited-
mono-syllabic if we may call this. Imagine being able to say only “yes” or
“no”. How limited we would become! So, the depth, dimension and lucidity give
our communication method a unique superiority.
Same goes for co-ordination. All animals
co-ordinate at some scale or the other. But we co-ordinate in scale of billions.
Traffic lights, law and order, stock market trading, currency notes… all are
the proof of efficiency of our co-ordination. But again, this is not just about
number. Bees and ants can communicate in huge numbers as well. But then, as
mentioned earlier, their communication is mono syllabic. So, their numbers and
their abilities as a team is very limited.
If you look closely, even the smallest units-
like a family or a relationship or the largest units- like countries,
religions, markets- they are all based on only these two things only-
Communication & Co-ordination. Of course, we can develop methods and invent
modes to do these better, faster and in more High-Definition- but at the heart
of this all- there are only two things- Our ability to communicate and our
ability to co-ordinate.

Women Politics

Women in politics in the cutting edge time are underrepresented in many
nations around the world. Ladies have insufficient open doors in social
interest, particularly in taking a stab at political rights and power in
the administration and diverse institutions. This verifiable
inclination still perseveres, in spite of the fact that ladies are
progressively being politically chosen to be heads of state and
government. All through the world ladies face deterrents to their
investment in governmental issues. These boundaries are to be found in
winning social and financial routines, just as in existing political
structures.
 Women, as the traditional essential overseers of youngsters,
frequently have a more unmistakable job than men in upholding for kids,
bringing about a twofold profit as far as the advantages of women
representation. Women delegates advance women rights, yet additionally
advance the privileges of kids.

Digital Media

Digital media can be made, seen, circulated, changed and saved on
advanced hardware gadgets. Digital media frequently appears differently
in relation to print media. This type of media has a noteworthy
expansive and complex effect on society and culture. Joined with the
Internet and individualized computing, digital media has caused
problematic development in distributing, news coverage, advertising,
etc. Digital Media is a mix of innovation and substance, and building
advanced media items requires groups of experts with different
aptitudes, including specialized abilities, aesthetic aptitudes,
scientific and creation coordination abilities. 
These abilities should
be adjusted in a group, with all colleagues concentrated on making the
best client experience.  Digital media has likewise presented new
difficulties to copyright and licensed innovation laws, encouraging an
open substance development in which content makers deliberately
surrender a few or the majority of their legitimate rights to their
work.

Fake News

Fake news is a kind of sensationalist reporting or purposeful publicity
that comprises of intentional disinformation or deceptions spread by
means of customary print and communicate news media or online social
media. The incorrect information is frequently brought about by
correspondents paying hotspots for stories, an exploitative practice
called checkbook news coverage. Digital news has brought back and
expanded the use of fake journalism. The news is then frequently
resonated as falsehood in online life however at times discovers its way
to the predominant press also. 
The significance of fake news has
expanded in post-truth legislative issues. For news sources, the
capacity to pull in watchers to their sites is important to create web
based publicizing income. Simple access to online commercial income,
expanded political polarization, and the prominence of web-based social
networking, basically the Facebook News Feed, have all been embroiled in
the spread of phony news, which contends with genuine news stories.
Fake news is composed and distributed for the most part with the goal to
deceive so as to harm an office, substance, or individual, as well as
addition monetarily or politically, frequently utilizing dramatist,
unscrupulous, or by and large created features to build readership.
Likewise, misleading content stories and features win promoting income
from this action

Photojournalism

Social media encourages you interface
up with individuals everywhere throughout the world. The positive impact
of online networking on kids incorporates, adapting new things,
interface with more distant family and companions. It gives powerful
stage to upgrading tyke’s information. Web based life rouse youngsters
to show signs of improvement at correspondence and supports opportunity
of self-articulation. Online networking encourages the advancement of
specialized ability and handy comprehension of innovation in the tyke.
The impermeability of social media guarantees that there is no control
on the extent of data. Such circumstances can prompt kids chancing upon
disgusting, unsafe or realistic sites that may influence their reasoning
procedure.
Digital harassing is
another developing pattern among internet based life sites. Cyber bully
can have perilous and conceivably lethal impacts. It claims numerous
exploited people every year.

Numerous children are affected by the ground-breaking promoting they see
via social media sites, and it unequivocally impacts their purchasing
propensities. These youngsters and their folks should know about how
they are focused on so more brilliant decisions can be made around their
ways of managing money. Investing an excess of energy can likewise
influence your youngster contrarily and regularly lead to web based life
dependence. Enslavement can show itself as different indications and
may even influence your youngster’s physical health. An excess of social
media can influence the kid’s capacity to create solid relational
connections. The children are flexible, and the torrential slide of data
can overpower them. Even though there are positive effects of social
media on children but on the other side the social media sites have
negatively affected the minds of children.

TIME!

What is time? The passing seconds, hours and
days? The past, the present and the future?
We do not
exactly know, yet. But the concept of time has been around in all
civilizations, Religion, philosophy, science even poetry and arts. The concept
of time has always been there.  After all
it is the time that spends us. Nobody sane (and human) can ignore thinking
about this.
By common
sense, we all understand there was a past, there is a present and most likely
there will be a future. The events are interconnected the past affects the
present and the present will affect the future.
There is a
causality, and anything can only affect the future events it cannot have any
impact on the past.
Such
concept also make it interesting to think about paradoxes when we consider the
time travel.

Concept of time in Philosophy
and Religion

All religions deal with the concept of time in
their own way. While some are quite similar, others differ from each other. But
most of them go like, at t=0; God created the stars, earth etc. He set the
things in motion. Some religions also talk about cyclicity of time. How eras
come and go. And how they will come again. They talk about a past- where we did
something, and we are being rewarded or punished for it now. It also talks
about how our present behavior will influence our future.
Time helps religion to establish a good
behaviour norm in society. It helps them calm the quirky minds who would
otherwise fall into despair or revolt.
Astrology, which hovered very closely between
religion, philosophy and sometimes even science, is a way to predict one’s
future based on one’s past and present.

Concept of time in Science

Time was considered absolute and sacrosanct in
the world of physics until Einstein came along in the early 20th
century. What he said was something more fundamental and purer about the nature
of the universe. His entire reasoning was based on the logic that “laws of
physics would be same for everyone irrespective of their nature of
(non-accelerated) motion.”
This therefore posed a new challenge. From
different experiments and observations, we had found that speed of light
remains constant through all conditions. So, if somebody is moving and still
observing the same speed of light as we do- then they must experience the space
and the time differently.
This opened up a new branch of science. Time
cannot be absolute. Every observer will experience it differently so that their
experience about the laws of physics remain same. It further goes on to talk
about the factors of time dilation, space dilation etc. It also gave raise to
topics of paradoxes like “Twin brother paradox”.

Conclusion

Time is definitely a fabric that helps us
understand a lot about the universe. But, as physics puts it, perhaps our
experiences of physical laws are more fundamental than the time itself. And
that goes in sync with philosophy also.
You may be 50 years old, but how many days have
you lived? How many days do you remember? Only that part is the meaningful
life.
As an old dialogue goes-
“Do not count the life in days but count the
days in life.”

Being Human: An evolutionary Story (Part 1)

How did we get here?
Sometimes this is the most important question
one can ask oneself. Corporations, individuals and even nations do this
introspection. But most of the time this is done post a failure to draw lessons
and improve in future. But what if we do not know what failure looks like?
For example, we have generation(s) who think
that they were happier in their childhood, in their villages, living the lives
of their parents. Nothing stops them from going back to that world, from
burning their mobile phones and deactivating their Facebook accounts. But
nobody does. We march forward- even when we know we have left our happiest
habitat. What kind of success is this? Why do we move in wrong direction
despite having all the signs that happiness lied the other way? Are human
beings destined to be doomed?

Chapter 1: Making of the Human

Humans were a nobody among
thousands more powerful species 70000 years ago. How did we climb so high so
fast? Brains you say- but that does not help against lions or floods. Human
beings learned to make and use stone tools thousands of years later. Brains may
be the reason for our might today, but it definitely was not for many thousands
of years.
The ingredients of the rise of
humans is a perfect story of butterfly effect.
It all started with human’s
ability to speak. The voice box moved up in the throat allowing us to generate
thousands of different sounds- much more than any animal ever before. We
started producing sounds, talking to each other, gossiping, adding more details
to our communications. If we wanted to inform a fellow human being that a group
of lions is approaching, we did not just say lions like most other animals did.
We added much more information- how many, what age, how hungry, what gender?
This helped us prepare well, prepare for defense and counterattacks.
We started creating stories, that
we would pass on to our children, and they to their children and so on. Our
knowledge was not limited by knowledge of one individual- as it was in case of
most other animals- but our knowledge was the collective knowledge of our
present tribes and our forefathers. If one human being invented fire, no one
else ever had to do it again! The knowledge would automatically come through
tribe, through generations! Thus, humans had more time to learn new things, and
expand horizons. If we are sitting today in a comfy room on a laptop- it is on
the shoulder of millions of our fellow humans and forefathers that we are
sitting.
And of all things, how it
started- Habit of gossiping!

This is also interesting to note that this
evolution was kind of counter intuitive. The upward movement of voice box meant
that we ran a risk of choking. We developed ability to cough a few thousand of
years later. So, this seems like a counterintuitive step of evolution. Or,
perhaps the habit and need of gossiping is far deeper inside us than we know….

Hindi as a National Language

Annual Hindi Diwas

14th September has been designated
as “Hindi Diwas”- meaning “Hindi Day”. Authors, speakers and various
contributors of different capacity towards promotion of Hindi, are recognized
and awarded on this day. Like many other festivals and days of the country,
this day has also lost its meaning and purpose. But even while this day has
failed to achieve anything significant, it always manages to achieve one thing-
that is attracting the supporters and criticisers of “Hindi as a National
Language”.
This year, the feud got kicked off by Home
Minister Amit Shah, while he was speaking at a ceremony on Hindi. He said, “While
diversity in languages is the strength of our nation, a national language
needed so that foreign languages and cultures do not overpower our own”.
He recognized Hindi as the most capable national language candidate.  Of course, this got twisted by all degrees by
various leaders for their interests. But Honorable Home Minister is not the
first person to say this. Many greater leaders have said similar things and
more passionately. Mahatma Gandhi- who was perhaps the first true National
Leader, said exactly similar things. Even his first language was not Hindi.
Interestingly, Hindi is not first language of Home Minister either. So, it is
interesting to understand why Hindi brings out such divisions? Why some
non-native speakers of Hindi vouch for Hindi, while others fight it fiercely.

History of Indian
Languages

Art XVII of the Constitution of India designates
Hindi as the official language of the Union and a clause “or in
English” is added for carrying out daily official work. Though English was
to be phased out in 15 years post the implementation of the constitution, but
such proposals have faced severe protests from non-Hindi speaking states.
In addition to official language, constitution
also recognizes 22 scheduled languages- English is not part of this list. Below
is the count of language wise speakers as per the Census 2011.
Language
Speakers (in lakhs, 2011)
Hindi
5280
Bengali
972
Marathi
830
Telugu
811
Tamil
690
Gujarati
555
Urdu
507
Kannada
437
Odia
375
Malayalam
348
Punjabi
331
Assamese
153
Maithili
136
Santali
73
Kashmiri
68
Nepali
29
Sindhi
27
Dogri
26
Konkani
22.5
Manipuri
18
Bodo
14.8
Sanskrit
0.2

What should be our way
forward?

As you can see, Hindi is the largest language
spoken by almost 40% Indians. If you add Hindi-family languages together, the
count would be even higher. So naturally Hindi has the highest potential of
becoming the language that can thread the pearls of India.
So why are there protests? Welcome to democratic
freedom!
Every voice matters. So does every choice. Why
would anyone give up their choice unless they see any gain from it? And this
cannot be done by force or law. That is where policymakers have been making
mistake. Hindi does not offer any more advantage than the other Indian
languages as far as work is concerned. In fact, the widely availability of
texts, research and other materials in English- makes English more efficient
language than most other languages of the world. There is no harm or shame in
acknowledging this.
So, in such scenario, what role Hindi can play?
Well, English can be language of minds, but matters of heart belong to Hindi.
There is no better option than this. But encouraging matters of heart is
totally different from encouraging matters of mind.
The pure Hindi is hardly spoken by a handful of
people in informal environment. There are tens of thousands of dialects of
Hindi and they all come to together in this beautiful language. We have
incorporated words from Awadhi, Brij, Magahi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Punjabi,
Marathi, Bengali, Urdu, Farsi and even English. We will have to go further- we
can incorporate more languages. This can only happen when interaction between
two different cultures happen more often. School meets, sports meet, Melas and
other such informal gatherings can be the perfect way to do this.
Hindi deserves to be the language of hearts,
and this cannot be done formally. We have to be informal, experimental and
open-minded about this. Otherwise petty politicians will keep using this topic
as to create divide in the society.

JALDOOT’ will encourage people’s participation for Water Conservation

Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Information & Broadcasting, Shri Prakash Javadekar said today that ‘Jaldoot’ is a unique initiative and it will take the message of water conservation to masses.  After flagging off  the ‘Jaldoot’  a travelling exhibition arranged by Regional Outreach Bureau , Pune under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Mr. Javadekar said that Jaldoot will visit 8 districts of Maharashtra in next 2 months will also tell about the work done by the government in last 100 days. The exhibition highlights bold initiatives and decisive actions taken by the government.   
 
The Jaldoot will travel trough Pune , Ahmadngar, Nashik, Jalgaon , Buldhana, Amravati  and Solapur districts. Mr Javadekar further said that Modi government has given the priority for water conservation; a new ministry of Jalshakti has been formed to ensure that there will not be scarcity of water in the country. The central government is committed to provide water to every household by 2024 he added. On this occasion ‘Swachhta’ oath was administered by Shri Javadekar to participants. Shri Javadekar also appreciated the exhibition prepared for this.  
 
Shri Girish Bapat, Member of Parliament ,Smt Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament , Shri Satyendra Sharan, Director General, Regional Outreach Bureau, Shri R . N. Mishra Director General Press Information Bureau West Zone, Shri D J Narein ADG , Shri Santosh Ajmera Joint Director ROB Pune and other dignitaries were present.   
Jaldoot: Backgrounder
  • The Hon’ble Prime Minister, has launched the campaign on ‘Janshakti se Jalshakti’ abhiyan. The people are to join hands for water conservation and create a jan-andolan along the lines of the Swachh Bharat Mission, to save water and secure the future.
  • To tackle the water crisis looming the country, the Government of India launched the JALSHAKTI ABHIYAN, a water conservation campaign focusing on 1592 stressed blocks in 256 districts across the country.
  • The Regional Outreach Bureau, ROB, with its headquarter at Pune for Maharashtra and Goa region is the office under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It takes care of various outreach activities and development communication needs of the Central Government.
  • ROB in association with MSRTC (Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation) is launching the Jaldoot campaign. The ROB has redesigned the bus, to create the Jaldoot : Travelling Exhibition on Jalshakti Abhiyan. The exhibition consists of various information display panels and Audio-Visual components. The Song &Drama Division cultural troupes and artists travelling along the bus would create awareness about the Government’s initiative.
  • The field units at those locations would have different activities like competitions, rallies, cultural programmes on the side-lines of visit of the bus, in order to create awareness on water conservation efforts.
  • The JALSHAKTI ABHIYAN focus on five key aspects:
  • Water Conservation and Rain Water Harvesting
  • Renovation of Traditional and other Water Bodies
  • Reuse of Water and Recharging of structures
  • Watershed Development
  • Intensive Afforestation

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a specific type of journalism that utilizes pictures
so as to recount to a news story. It is presently typically comprehended
to allude just to even now pictures, yet at times the term likewise
alludes to video utilized in communicate news coverage. Photojournalism
is recognized from other close parts of photography by consenting to an
unbending moral system which requests that the work be both fair and
fair-minded while recounting to the story in carefully journalistic
terms. 
Photojournalists make pictures that add to the news media, and
help networks associate with one other. Photojournalists must be very
much educated and proficient about occasions happening directly outside
their entryway. They convey news in an innovative arrangement that isn’t
just educational, yet additionally engaging. Photojournalism began to
come to fruition when picture takers could without much of a stretch
transport cameras into combat areas.

Media Ethics

Media ethics is the subdivision of connected morals managing the
particular moral standards and benchmarks of media, including
communicate media, film, theater, expressions of the human experience,
print media and the web. The field covers many differed and very
questionable points, running from war reporting to Benetton
advertisement battles. Worldwide media ethics goes for building up a far
reaching set of standards and models for the act of reporting during a
time of worldwide news media. New types of communication are reshaping
the act of a once parochial art serving a nearby, provincial or national
open. 
A similar innovation enables news media to spread this data to
gatherings of people dissipated the world over. Media ethics includes
advancing and safeguarding qualities, for example, a general regard
forever and the standard of law and legality. Writing with respect to
the manners by which explicitly the Internet impacts media morals in
news coverage online is rare, subsequently confounding the thought for
an all-inclusive code of media ethics.

Career options in India: Disaster Management as a career Option

Disaster Management is an essential requirement of a modern society. Growing population and critical ecological balance have increased the risk of disaster. Natural disasters like- flood, cyclones, tsunami, flash floods, earthquakes; and man-made disasters like- fire incidents, train/plane crashes, civil structure collapses are just around the corner. The dense population and intense economic activities have raised the potential of the impact of these disasters astronomically. Natural disasters alone have taken 2 million lives according to UN estimates and another 800 million lives were affected directly or indirectly.
Therefore, the need of managing such disasters is more than ever before. The society and governments need to be ready for disasters beforehand; manage the disasters when they occur so that the impact is minimal and rehabilitating fast so that life gets back on the track. Disaster Management is basically a course to do these activities professionally and more systematically.


Career Options

Disaster Management roles can be categorized in 3 major categories-
  1. Disaster Prevention- Disaster prevention is one of the major and most important task of disaster managers. It is focused on activities and measures undertaken to prevent the occurrence of natural disasters and human hazards.
  2. Disaster Preparedness- This would concern with planning, monitoring and policy making regarding disaster management and safety practices.
  3. Disaster Relief- This is managing the disaster hit. Here the focus would be on the immediate recovery- minimizing impact on economy and lives.
  4. Disaster recovery- Here the focus is on bringing the lives back to normalcy. Rehabilitation of people, rebuilding of houses and restarting of economic activities. It would also involve studying the impact of the disaster and cultivating the learning to mitigate the disaster better the next time.


Pros and Cons of a career in Disaster Management

Pros
  • This career gives opportunity to help disaster victims and save lives.
  • By helping to prepare better for disasters, you can help country and society to save millions 
  • The work is exciting and adventurous.
  • As world is learning more about the disasters, the career options are on growth.
Cons
  • The field is still emerging, and the career options and payments are somewhat limited.
  • The work is often in remote areas and on the disaster struck locations.
  • The adventure also comes with significant risk.


How to pursue a career in Disaster Management?

You can complete your graduation in any stream and pursue masters in Disaster Management. You can follow this up with PhD.
The alternative path can be- after competing graduation and take a diploma in Disaster Management.


Top Disaster Management Institutes in India

College
Location
Website
Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Mumbai
Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment
New Delhi
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
New Delhi
Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi
School of Distance Learning (Annamalai University)
Annamalai, Tamil Nadu
University Centre for Disaster Management (Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University)
Dwarka, Delhi
School of Distance learning (Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences)
Manipal
Department of Geography (Panjab University)
Chandigarh
International Centre of Madras University (Madras University)
Chennai
The Global Open University
Nagaland
National Civil Defense College
Nagpur
Asian Institute of Fire Safety
Chattisgarh
Faculty of Environmental Science, Rajiv Gandhi University
Arunachal Pradesh
North-Eastern Hill University
Shillong


Job Opportunities

As discussed earlier, the job opportunities are still growing in this sector. However, government is updating regulations about this regularly. Manufacturing plants are already required to have safety officers. Government has also constructed NDRF team. 

Other than the organized sector, plenty of opportunities lie with World Bank, UN agencies and NGOs.