Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that India has become a global leader in the field of disaster management due to excellent works done by NDMA, NDRF and others.
Addressing a conference of all states and UTS relief commissioners and disaster response forces, Shah also said 10 years ago, disaster mitigation organizations were approaching minimum casualties and after 10 years, the approach is to achieve the target of zero casualties.
“Whenever the history of India’s disaster response is written, the last 10 years of the Modi government will be recorded as a transformative decade. In these 10 years, we have made significant achievements in all four areas – capacity, efficiency, speed and accurate,” he said.
“In the last 10 years, the NDMA, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the disaster flexible infrastructure (CDRI) for alliance have strongly deployed India to become a global leader in the field of disaster management,” he said.
Shah said that in the last two years, workshops and meetings of all agencies related to relief and disaster management have been worked to create a platform of ideas with an entire government’s approach.
Shah said that NDRF has earned nationwide recognition, created a strong reputation and received respect while the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has also played an important role in this structure.
He said that due to climate change and global warming, the whole world is struggling with disasters and needs to move forward with environmental protection as a main component.
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He said, “Earlier, the approach was relieved-centered, but now, the goal of ‘Zero Casualty’ has been successfully achieved and meditation has shifted from relief-centered to a broad and integrated approach,” he said.
He emphasized the importance of the fear of future disasters, did advanced research, compiled global ideas in the field and made them suit India’s geographical conditions.
Shah said that Relief Commissioners should prepare the District Disaster Management Plan for their respective districts within 90 days as it cannot respond rapidly to a disaster until a district has its own disaster management plan.
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