Q1.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is specially trained to respond to natural as well as human-made disasters. NDRF battalions are located at 12 different locations in India. The NDRF has played a key role in rescue and evacuation during disasters like cyclones, landslides and floods.
Answer
Two ideas are packed into this box.
| What the box says | Why it is designed that way | |
|---|---|---|
| Trained for both kinds | Natural and human-made disasters | A building collapse, a chemical leak or a train accident needs the same skills as a flood rescue — rope work, boats, cutting equipment, first aid |
| Spread over 12 locations | Battalions are stationed across the country, not in one place | In a disaster the first hours decide who survives. A force parked in one city would arrive too late for the rest |
Notice how this connects to the section it sits in. The IMD watches a cyclone form and says where it will land; the NDRF is already positioned to evacuate that coast. Prediction plus preparation is exactly the answer to Big Question 4 — understanding the climate is what makes a rescue possible before the disaster, not only after it.
Did you know? Odisha's 1999 super cyclone killed about ten thousand people. When Cyclone Fani struck the same coast in 2019 — the storm in Fig. 3.13 — early warnings and a mass evacuation kept the death toll to a tiny fraction of that. Warning systems and trained forces save lives.