PM Modi Releases India’s First National Disaster Management Plan

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

• 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.

The comprehensiveness of this plan is noteworthy. It covers all phases of disaster management- prevention, mitigation, response & recovery.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 1, 2016

(With inputs from PTI.)