New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday released India’s first-ever National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) for a comprehensive strategy to deal with any kind of disaster.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh, MoS for home Kiren Rijiju and senior officers from the Prime Minister’s Office, home ministry and National Disaster Management Authority were also present at the release of the NDMP.
The NDMP’s main purpose is to make the country disaster-resilient, achieve substantial disaster risk reduction, and significantly decrease loss of life, livelihood and assets by maximising the ability to cope with disasters at all levels of administration as well as among communities.
The response part of the plan will help prepare an early warning system, along with proper maps and satellite inputs, and will also focus on faster dissemination of information and evolving better coordination among multiple agencies.
The plan also deals with faster evacuation of people and animals, medical care, food and essential supplies, power, housing and temporary shelters and supply of drinking water, logistics and transportation in a disaster situation. The plan also looks into the role of various agencies at the Centre and state levels during a disaster.
