🔴 Truth Drop
India loses ₹4–5 lakh crore annually — nearly 3% of GDP — due to disasters like floods, fires, and road accidents.
(Source: UNDRR, NDMA)
📖 Why This Matters
This is not just about human lives. Disasters eat into India’s economy — wiping out factories, crops, housing, and infrastructure. Every rupee lost in fire or flood is a rupee not spent on healthcare, education, or jobs. Countries like Japan spend 4% of GDP on disaster prevention, which saves them far more during earthquakes and tsunamis. In India, prevention budgets remain tiny.
💥 Myth vs Fact
- Myth: “Disasters are unpredictable, so we can’t plan for them.”
- Fact: 70–80% of India’s disasters are predictable (flood seasons, high-risk zones). What’s missing is preparation.
- Myth: “Prevention costs too much.”
- Fact: World Bank shows every ₹1 spent on prevention saves ₹7 in recovery.
📊 Data & Visual
🧰 What You Can Do Today
- Citizens: Protect homes with basic safety tools, insure property.
- Corporates: Treat safety as investment, not expense.
- Government: Allocate larger disaster prevention budgets.
📎 Sources
UNDRR India 2023, NDMA Economic Loss Reports, World Bank Resilience Studies.
📣 Call to Action
“Every fire prevented is not just a life saved, but also crores of rupees protected.”
🔚 Closing Line
“Disasters kill people — and futures. Prevention is not optional, it’s profitable.”