🇮🇳 India

What your government recommends

Be ready for A few days^[1]

“Pack essentials for yourself and your family to last a few days. These should include medicines, special food for babies and children or elders. (NDMA Cyclone: Do's and Don'ts, 'When Evacuation is instructed')”

Food: Keep some dry, non-perishable food always ready for use in an emergency. When a cyclone warning is issued, get extra food that can be eaten without cooking and store extra drinking water in covered vessels. Make provision for children and adults who need a special diet. Drink only boiled or chlorinated water during and after a disaster.^[1]

Recommended items

• ✓Dry, non-perishable food (ready to eat without cooking)^[1]
• ✓Extra drinking water stored in covered vessels^[1]
• ✓Battery-operated torches and enough dry cells (batteries)^[1]
• ✓Hurricane lantern or other emergency lights^[1]
• ✓Radio (transistor) with extra batteries^[1]
• ✓Charged mobile phone (use SMS in an emergency)^[1]
• ✓Documents and valuables in waterproof containers^[1]
• ✓Medicines^[1]
• ✓Special food for babies, children or elders^[1]

Good to know

• • India's official public guidance is hazard-specific (cyclones, floods, earthquakes, heat waves, etc.) and does not set a national number of days or litres of water to store.
• • Official do's and don'ts for each hazard, including nuclear-radiological, chemical and biological emergencies, are published by NDMA and on the SACHET portal.
• • Your state or district disaster management authority may give local guidance and helpline numbers.