Objective: To make India disaster resilient and reduce loss of lives
Legal Provisions:
NDMP is mandated under Disaster Management Act, 2005. As per the Act, the national plan must lay down the guidelines for preparation of state-level disaster management plans as well as plans by each Central ministry and department.
Major Themes:
Based on “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-30”, 4 major themes are :
- Understanding disaster risk
- Improving disaster risk governance
- Investing in disaster risk reduction and
- Disaster preparedness
Important Features:
- It covers all phases of disaster management: prevention, response, mitigation and recovery
- It provides for vertical and horizontal integration among all the Government agencies and departments
- It also spells out the roles and responsibilities of all levels of Government right up to Urban Local Body (ULB) and Panchayat level in a matrix format
- The plan has a regional approach, which will be beneficial for disaster management and also for development planning
- It has been designed in such a way that it can be implemented in all phases of disaster management in a scalable manner
- The plan also identifies major activities such as early warning, medical care, information dissemination, fuel, search and rescue, transportation, evacuation, etc. to serve as a checklist for agencies responding to a disaster
- It also provides a generalized framework for recovery and offers flexibility to assess a situation and build back better
- It emphasizes on a greater need for Information, Education and Communication activities to prepare communities to cope with disasters
- The plan incorporates provisions for strengthening disaster risk governance and lays down six thematic areas