Oct 29 2014 : The Economic Times (Delhi)

Cutting-edge solutions for natural disasters





When compared to the world, India has been a safer land in terms of natural calamities. However, the times have changed in the past few years. Having witnessed some severe natural calamities due to floods in Uttarakand last year and Kashmir this year, advanced disaster resistance and management has become an absolute necessity for India. Japan is one of the most prone countries to natural calamities due to earthquakes, floods, typhoons, etc. It turns out to be one of the reasons they have one of the best disaster management systems in the world.Before1960 in Japan, the measurement against the flood was not sufficient and thousands of people were killed or lost lives each time heavy typhoons hit the country. The Japanese government then made a fiveyear-plan for flood control. The measures included flood control by improving bank, dam, river system and weather radar, etc., and every five year the number of flood victims began to decrease.
Toshiba has been supplying many weather radars and its applied systems to government and autonomous companies. Toshiba delivered its first weather radar system to the government of Japan in 1955.
In India, Toshiba plans to promote total solutions that help to minimize the impacts of disasters by utilizing highly accurate, high density information obtained from the cuttingedge weather radars.
One of latest offerings in the safety solutions, Toshiba is already in the process of implementing its weather radar system in Kashmir. With the starting point already made, Toshiba will expand its offerings in disaster resistant solutions for India and its commitment is to bring in total solutions for disaster resistance to all the regions of the nation in need. The entry of Toshiba's new business venture, which is focussed on solving yet another social issue of India, reassures Toshiba's commitment to the people of Indian society.