Legal Framework for Biological Disasters
1. The Epidemics Diseases Act, 1897 was enacted to manage of 1897 bubonic plague of Mumbai.
2. The law provides the government with some special powers in mitigating biological disasters.
- The power to legislate policies and norms and restricting the right to travel lies with the central government.
- The power to legislate the disaster affected area including the imposition of travel restrictions and to implement the executive action lies with the state governments.
3. Section 188 of IPC deals with the penalty proposed under Biological disasters and provides for the protection of peoples acting under the legislation to any legal proceedings.
Disaster Management in India
Disaster management has been a tedious task in India keeping in view the aspects related to it. Although, definite steps have been taken in this direction still it lacks in some respects. This article deals with disaster management in India from the time of India’s independence, and what changes have been done in each successive phase.
Disasters can be caused due to many factors such as natural, human-induced, biological, etc. Since Biological disasters have a composite nature incorporating both natural and human-related phenomena, this has been discussed in greater detail. Further, it being a continuous process involving the political, environmental, social, and economic angles minimizing has been an impressive area of research all over the world so that lives can be enhanced and disasters can be minimized. As is usually understood by many individuals, disaster management involves reducing the occurrence of disasters but disaster being an unavoidable circumstance, disaster management deals with minimizing the effects of disaster.
Table of Content
- What is Disaster?
- Agencies involved in the management of disasters in India
- Financial arrangements under the Disaster Management Act
- Drawbacks of the Disaster Management Act
- Biological Disasters
- Legislations for prevention of biohazards in India
- Legal Framework for Biological Disasters
- Prevention of Biological Disasters
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