India, with a Risk Index of “High”, is
particularly prone to flood and earthquake. 
(2011 World Risk Report by the United Nations University –
Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

In 2007 there was severe flooding in Northern India with over 20 million people affected. At that time there was no First Response Radio team in the area. Seeing the need local Broadcast and NGO communities mobilized to launch their initial First Response Radio team in 2008, following training in the tsunami affected area of Tamil Nadu. A few few months later this team was able to deploy to flooding in Bihar in 2008, and later, to flooding in South India in 2009.

In 2011 more team members were trained, this time in the Bihar flood area.

Subsequently teams have responded to flooding in Assam (July 2012), Bihar (2017), and Kerala (2018).  Indian team members are drawn from a number of broadcast and NGO groups and liaise with SPHERE (India)

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Transcript of a phone call to the First Response Radio (FRR) station from a flood survivor. FRR was able to pass this information on to the relevant NGO and Government organisations.

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Please do something for us. There are more than one thousand people here. We are not getting safe drinking water. Children are suffering from fever and there is no medical help. I do not know what will happen tomorrow.”