ABSTRACT
India a country prone to disasters due to its geo physical profile, urbanisation and population has faced many disaster since last century. The growing frequency and intensity of anthropogenic activities has induced a large number of disasters and climate related events like sudden outburst of cloud, flash floods, and episodes of extreme hot waves, heavy rainfalls and frequent earthquakes in the seismological zones. This sudden large scale events results into loss of not only human life but causes huge damage to property and destruction of infrastructure. Hence, it become of utmost importance to build safe and resilient infrastructure in order to save not only the collateral damage and destruction but save the loss of life too. As the buildings would be constructed following the building codes there are less chances of it collapsing and causing damage at the time of disaster, also the use of mitigation and planning strategy are important to foster resilience further. Moving towards speedy urbanisation and development, a huge threat to safe and resilient infrastructures is observed which hinders the goal of achieving sustainable development in all the sectors of the society. This paper attempts to identify and address the situation of disaster in country like India and the urge to build a disaster resilient infrastructure in India through zoning and planning mitigation based on its topographical, disaster proneness and geophysical profiles.
