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08/04/22 14:01 PM IST

Annual Conference on Capacity Building for Disaster Response - 2022

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  • Union Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah attended the Annual Conference on Capacity Building for Disaster Response - 2022 organized by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as the Chief Guest at Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi
About NDMA 
  • NDMA headed by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, SDMAs headed by all Chief Ministers.
  • It is the apex statutory body for Disaster Management in India, established through the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
  • Disaster management has been taken to the ground with confidence by the Central and State Governments.
About NDMP 
  • AIM-to make India disaster resilient and significantly reduce the loss of lives and assets.
  • The plan is based on the four priority themes of the “Sendai Framework,” namely: understanding disaster risk, improving disaster risk governance, investing in disaster reduction (through structural and non-structural measures) and disaster preparedness, early warning and building back better in the aftermath of a disaster.
  • Vision- Make India disaster resilient, achieve substantial disaster risk reduction, and significantly decrease the losses of life, livelihoods, and assets – economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental – by maximizing the ability to cope with disasters at all levels of administration as well as among communities.
Source-PIB 

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