National Consultation Workshop on Preparation of State Disaster Management Plans

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National Consultation Workshop on Preparation of State Disaster Management Plans

Disaster Management Act. NDMA has been supporting the State/ UT Governments to prepare their DMPs through various initiatives.

Shri M. Shashidhar Reddy, Vice Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has said that Disaster Management Plans (DMP) are living documents that would require constant improvement and innovation as the States continue to deal with various disasters. He was delivering the inaugural address at the 2-day National Consultation Workshop on Preparation of State Disaster Management Plans at NDMA Bhawan here today. States/ UTs are in different stages of preparation of the DMPs.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to the States to share various measures taken by them for the preparation of State DMP and exchanging ideas and technical information thereby learn from each other in developing actionable State DMP.

Preparation of DMP is a mandatory requirement as per Disaster Management Act. NDMA had issued Guidelines for preparation of the State SDMPs in August 2007 in accordance with the provision of the Section 6(2)(d) of the

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