Public institutional response policies in disaster management: a study of kerala (state) floods 2018 in India

The disaster management includes a complex set of activities, which are carried out both in the pre and post disaster stage.The disaster emergency management practitioners and scholars refer to these activities as the four phases of the comprehensive emergency management cycle, which include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Mitigation and preparedness are pre-disaster activities, while response and recovery constitute post-disaster activities.The governmental institutions response role is very important than the private sphere activity for handling the disaster management.The Kerala(state) floods took place in the month of august ,2018. Bothe the Kerala(state)government and the central government of Indiahad played an immense response role by various policies for successfully dealtthis state’sfloods in 2018 in India.