# Q7A · Recommend a suitable mitigation measures that can be suitably adopted for capacity de… Subject: Disaster Management Exam: TEE Reader: https://deep-learning-study-room.vercel.app/dm/#tee/papers/paper-2026-07-10/q7a Canonical: https://deep-learning-study-room.vercel.app/read/dm/tee/papers/paper-2026-07-10--q7a/ Actual TEE paper · 100 marks · 3 hours · Q1 + any four of Q2–Q7 ### Q7A. Recommend a suitable mitigation measures that can be suitably adopted for capacity development against cyclone. Justify and explain any such 4 measures in detail. [10 marks] #### Answer 1. **Warning and last-mile communication.** Use official forecasts, clear action messages and several communication channels. A forecast must reach fishers, visitors and people without smartphones, with enough time and support to act. 2. **Shelters and evacuation access.** Provide accessible shelters outside surge and flood zones, linked by reliable routes. Practise transport, headcounts and support for people needing assistance so that shelter capacity becomes usable protection. 3. **Resilient buildings and lifelines.** Strengthen roof connections and protect power, water and communication systems to appropriate standards. Hospitals require backup services and protected equipment to keep functioning during response. 4. **Risk-informed coastal land use.** Use surge and flood maps to control exposed development and locate critical infrastructure safely. Protect mangroves and appropriate coastal vegetation as part of a wider protection system, not a guaranteed barrier against every surge. These measures build information, physical, organisational and community capacity. They reduce losses; they do not prevent the atmospheric cyclone itself. #### Real case · Phailin, 2013 India reported pre-emptive evacuation of more than one million people before Cyclone Phailin. This is a real example of warning linked to action. For a formation question, keep the physical process separate; for management, explain how evacuation reduces exposed people’s immediate risk. [Case reference ↗](https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?lang=2®=48&relid=105888)