PM Modi Releases India’s First National Disaster Management Plan

The NDMP covers all phases of disaster management – prevention, mitigation, response and recovery.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Home Minster Rajnath Singh and MoS Kiren Rijiju at the release of the National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP), on 1 June in Delhi.

• The first-ever national plan for disaster management, which encompasses a blueprint for making the country disaster-resilient and concentrates on reducing loss of lives and livelihoods, was unveiled on 1 June by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Delhi.
  
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• The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) provides a generalised framework and direction to government agencies for all phases of disaster management cycle and will be periodically improved to keep up with global standards of disaster management, said a Home Ministry Statement.
  
  
• The NDMP has been based on the goals and priorities set out in the global blueprint for disaster management, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

(With inputs from PTI.)