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NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority)

•Introduction:-

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), headed by the Prime Minister of India, is the Apex Body for Disaster Management in India. The setting up of the NDMA and the creation of an enabling environment for Institutional mechanisms at the State and District levels is mandated by the Disaster Management Act, 2005.This unit describes about NDMA, civil defence and disaster recovery plans of industry and corporate. 

India envisions the development of an ethos of prevention, mitigation and preparedness and will strive to promote a national resolve to mitigate the damage and destruction caused by natural and man-made disasters, through sustained and collective efforts of all government agencies, non-governmental organizations and people's participation, by adopting a technology-driven, pro-active, multi-hazard and multi-sectoral strategy for building a safer, disaster resilient and dynamic India. The logo of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reflects the aspirations of this national vision, of empowering all stakeholders for improving the effectiveness of disaster management in India. The map of India, embossed in gold, in the middle of the logo, circumscribed by the national tricolor of saffron, white and green represents the aspirations to contain the potential threat of natural and man-made disasters through capacity development of all stakeholders. The outer circle is golden ring of partnership of all stakeholders, whose holding of hands in an expression of their solidarity to supplement the efforts of teh Government. NDMA in the inner circle in tranquil blue integrates the entire process by empowering all stakeholders at the local, district, state and national levels. 


•Guidelines for NDMA:

NDMA has displayed in its website various guidelines for different disasters, be they natural calamities, man-made disasters or accidents in the industry. As per current uploading, these are as follows:
•Guidelines on role of NGOs in disaster management
•Guidelines for management of tsunami
•Chemical(terrorism) disaster guidelines
•Chemical disaster (industrial) guidelines
•Plan to counter threats to municipal water supply and water reservoirs
•Strengthening of safety and security for transportation of POL tankers. 
•Incident response system guidelines. 
•Nuclear disaster guidelines
•Institutional strengthening and capacity building for disaster risk reduction. 
•UNDP disaster risk reduction. 
•Medical preparedness aspects of disasters. 
•National policy on disaster management. 
•Psycho-social support guidelines. 
•Training regime for disaster response. 
•State disaster management plans. 
•Civil defence disaster guidelines. 
•Chemical disaster guidelines. 
•Earthquake guidelines. 
•Cyclone guidelines. 
•Landslide guidelines. 


•Policies of NDMA. 

The national policy framework has been prepared after due deliberations and by keeping in view the National vision 'to build a safe and disaster-resilient India by developing a holistic, proactive, multi-disaster and technology-driven strategy for DM. This is achieved through a culture of prevention, mitigation and preparedness to generate a prompt and efficient response at the time of disasters. In order to translate this vision into policy and plans, the NDMA has adopted a mission-mode approach involving a number of INITIATIVES with the help of various institutions operating at national, state and local levels. The central ministries, states the other stakeholders have been involved in the participatory and consultative process of evolving these policies and guidelines. This policy framework is also in conformity with the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the Rio Declaration, the Millenium Development Goals  and the Hyogo Framework 2005-2015.
The themes underpinning this policy are as follows:
•Community-based disaster management, including last mile integration of the policy, plans  and execution. 
•Capacity development in all related areas. 
•Consolidation of past initiatives and best practices. 
•Cooperation with agencies at national, regional and international levels. 
•Compliance and coordination to generate a multi-sectoral synergy from te national vision and aforementioned theme, the objectives guiding the policy formulation have evolved to include the following:
•Promoting a culture of prevention and preparedness by centre-staging DM as an overriding priority at all levels and at all times. 
•Encouraging mitigation measures based on state-of-the-art technology and environment sustainability. 
•Putting in place a streamlined institutional techno-legal framework in order to create and preserve the integrity of an enabling regulatory environment and a compliance regime. 
•Developing contemporary forecasting the early warning systems backed by responsive and fail-safe communications and Information Technology (IT) support. 
•Ensuring efficient response and relief with a caring humane approach towards the vulnerable sections of the society. 

•National Disaster Response Force. 

The disaster management act has mandated the constitution with a specialist response force used for fighting against any threatening disaster situation. This force will function and general superintendence. This will be a multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled, high-tech force for all types of disasters capable of insertion by air, sea and land. All the eight battalions are to be equipped and trained for all natural disasters including four battalions in combating nuclear, biological and chemical disasters. 




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