Poor warning system
The Himalayan Times
4 April 2019
Poor
warning system
Sometimes, Mother Nature deceives
us in such a way that it becomes very difficult to forecast and dodge. The
burden of such a natural disastrous becomes very heavy to bear. It happens anywhere around the globe and any
time of the year. We hear and read about the deadly flash floods, heavy landslides,
windstorms and hurricanes displacing thousands of people and killing hundreds
of them. However, the human casualties from such natural disasters in most of
the developed countries happen to be much less because of their well
preparedness.
In our case, may be, we talk much
but work less. It might be one of the reasons the heavy human casualties in Bara
and Parsa had to be witnessed on Sunday evening with great sorrow. The
country’s only department responsible for weather forecasting severely lacks skilled
human resources and sophisticated equipment needed for timely forecasting.
Failure to predict an approaching powerful windstorm because of the lack of
poor early warning system in place with the Meteorological Forecasting Division
with zero preparedness at the ground level led to this dreadful situation.
In the past also, there were many
human casualties and heavy infrastructural damages in the country due to
natural calamities. It is true that natural calamities cannot be challenged but
their effects can, however, be minimised. However, none of the past governments
and the concerned authorities seemed serious in strengthening this division
with proper and qualified human resources and appropriate technical equipment.
As a result, we had to see this horrible heartbreaking incident and bear these
huge human losses. Time has come for the government to immediately install much
needed weather forecasting equipment and train the human resources.
Rai
Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
