01218pab a2200169 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Uprety, Singha Raj Role of leadership in managing disasters 2003 p.61-75. Jan Disasters have several connotations in addition to natural calamities. Disaster in this article refers not only to explosion of natural calamities like landslide, flood, earthquake etc. but to man-made damages resulting from faulty decisions, mis-conceived policies and ill-prepared plans and programmes of our politicians, bureaucrats and technocrats. It has been observed that human induced disasters are positively co-related with the incompetence of leaders in any decisions making body. The aim of this article is to examine various types of disasters including man-made ones and to arrive at a decision that leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats working both at the national and global level have a responsibility in managing disasters through proper plan and policy formulation. - Reproduced. Leadership Disasters Administration and Management Review 56102 56102 56102 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 15, Issue no: 1 AR56547 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR