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Every organization is approachable to natural disasters and other possible causes of business interruption. As clarification, business continuity planning try to secure the critical operations when an organization is brazen out with interruptions such as natural disasters, technology failures, IT threats, human errors, and terrorism, as well as more minor disruptions such as planned or unplanned maintenance events. By developing business continuity plan, an organization is able to reduce the loss.

Continuity planning is not only important for the profit organizations but also important in our every day lives.

For example, if we take educational institutions which are facilitating the research activities. Colleges and universities are obligated to protect and provide security for students, faculty, staff, and visitors at all times, even in the event of a major interruption of operations. For institutions of higher education, a business continuity plan ensures the ability to resume business operations should a crisis occur. If an institutions are failed to prepare a complete continuity plan could lead to significant financial consequences, interruptions to the academic schedule, the failure of current research projects, or other unexpected delays to the completion of critical activities.

As a result of experiences gained from real time issues of disaster recovery and business continuity there are a lot of methodologies available today for preparing business continuity plans, but when we talk about a university or an educational institution the case is somehow different because of the fact that the unique purpose of educational institution is not profit making but to tell education. So, there is a need of a totally different approach when we are constructing business continuity plan for educational institutions.

One of the basic requirements for building a business continuity plan is to consider all risk scenarios an organization can face so that in future if they...