NATURAL DISASTERS

Disaster is a sudden adverse or unfortunate extreme event- natural or man-made, which causes great damage to human beings as well as plants and animals. It occurs rapidly, instantaneously, and indiscriminately that exceed the tolerable magnitude within given time limits, make human adjustment difficult, result in catastrophic losses of property, lives and income, and become the headlines of different news media at national and global levels. Natural disasters are those events or accidents that occur very rarely and aggravate environmental processes to cause human miseries. Natural disasters like floods, cyclones, storm surges, river bank erosions, droughts, etc. are occurring across the globe at an alarming rate, causing severe loss of human lives, crops, livestock, properties and physical infrastructure.