NDMA draws flak from CAG for its functioning

NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - India's disaster relief agency suffers from "critical gaps" in its preparedness for calamities, making it largely ineffective when responding to the numerous disasters the country faces such as floods and earthquakes, a government ...

The tremors that shook Delhi on Tuesday has jolted the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) into finalising its disaster management plan, Neelam Pandey reports.

Tags : India,Prime Minister,Disaster Management Write to the editor New Delhi, May 13: Disaster management is an area of vital national importance to India and the disaster risk reduction strategies must actively involve local communities, Prime ...

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) There is need to give priority to risk financing and risk insurance as part of disaster mitigation strategy, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) vice chairman M. Shashidhar Reddy said Thursday, calling for a ...

New Delhi, May 13 (ANI): The annual conference of top officials of states and union territories will be held here tomorrow to review the status of preparedness of dealing with crisis situations resulting from the forthcoming south-west monsoon.

New Delhi, May 13 (IBNS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said India is prone to natural and man-made disasters.Addressing the first session of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction here, Singh said: "Disaster management is an area of ...

New Delhi: Ahead of the monsoon, government has strengthened the capacity of early warning systems to deal with disasters and augmented inventory of relief material. Secretary, Border Management in the Home Ministry, AK Mangotra said the annual ...

New Delhi, May 9 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday said that to provide further momentum to the process of strengthening the Civil Defence organization, the government is planning to launch a new scheme of mainstreaming ...

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