National Institute of Disaster Management

  • August 27, 2021
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National Institute of Disaster Management

Subject – Disaster Management

Concept –

  • The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is one of the pioneer institutes under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
  • It has been mandated to promote capacity building interventions in Disaster Risk Management (DRM).
  • The Institute owes its origin in 1995 when a National Centre for Disaster Management (NCDM) was set up within Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) by the Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives.
  • Following the transfer the subject of disaster management from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the NCDM was delinked from the IIPA and rechristened as the ‘National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)’ under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
  • The NIDM acquired a statutory status after the promulgation of Disaster Management Act in 2005.
  • The prime mandates of the NIDM under the Act are: training, capacity building, research, documentation and policy advocacy on disaster management.
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