The majority of Asian countries despite having immense economic potential to become rich are limping with poverty, hunger, unemployment, poor health conditions, bad education facilities and glaring income disparity etc.  Those countries namely Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal etc incur huge economic loss due to cyclone, flood, earthquake, forest fire and landslides etc. Much of the wealth gained from the mining, industry and service sector is depleted due to the natural calamities. The natural disasters have eroded  wealth which could have been used for developing basic infrastructures for nation building.  How to protect human lives and properties has become the biggest challenge before the Asian community. 

China’s Ministry of Emergency and Management has reportedly said that the direct economic losses from natural disasters in China reached $34.7 billion in 2025.  A Swiss Re Group report, NatCat 2025, estimates that natural catastrophes cost India over $12 billion in 2025, with floods accounting for more than 63% of those losses. Between 2000 and 2025, India’s cumulative disaster bill has crossed $180 billion. According to the environmental organization, Germanwatch’s Climate Risk Index 2025″ report extreme floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves cause an average annual loss of nearly $3 billion in Bangladesh and the calamities affect 6.3 million people every year.   A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan on August 31 2025 caused an estimated loss of US $183 million in direct physical........

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