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PM releases first-ever national plan for disaster management

The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) provides a framework and direction to the government agencies for all phases of disaster management cycle —prevention, mitigation, response and recovery.

The NDMP is a document in the sense that it will be periodically improved keeping up with the emerging global best practices and knowledge bases in disaster management, a Home Ministry statement said.

The vision of the plan is to make India disaster- resilient, achieve substantial disaster risk reduction, and significantly decrease the loss of life, livelihoods, and assets, by maximising the ability to cope with disasters at all levels of administration as well as among communities, the statement said.

“It (NDMP) focuses on disaster resilience and reducing damage during disasters. The comprehensiveness of this plan is noteworthy. It covers all phases of disaster management- prevention, mitigation, response and recovery,” Modi tweeted. The NDMP provides a generalised framework for recovery, since it is not possible to anticipate all the possible elements of betterment reconstruction. 

The Prime Minister said to prepare communities to cope with disasters, the plan emphasises on a greater need for information, education and communication activities.
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