Shah asks states to prepare Disaster Management Plan

Subject : Polity

Section :Msc

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on June 13 asked States to prepare a disaster management plan in areas where seven new nuclear installations are to become operational.
He asked the States to prepare a road map in conjunction with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Also, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday announced three major schemes worth over Rs 8,000 crore that would cover the modernisation of fire brigade services in all states, flood mitigation in seven major cities and prevention of landslides in 17 states.
Shah highlighted that one lakh youth volunteers are being trained to deal with calamities in 350 disaster-prone districts under the ‘Aapda Mitra’ scheme, which has yielded good results.

National Disaster Management Plan, 2016

The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) was released in 2016, it is the first ever national plan prepared in the country for disaster management.
With National Disaster Management Plan (2016), India has aligned its National plan with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, to which India is a signatory.
The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) aims to make India disaster resilient and significantly reduce the loss of lives and assets.
The plan is based on the four priority themes of the “Sendai Framework,” namely:
understanding disaster risk
improving disaster risk governance
investing in disaster reduction (through structural and non-structural measures)
disaster preparedness, early warning and building back better in the aftermath of a disaster.

About ‘Aapda Mitra’ scheme

It is a Central Sector Scheme that was launched in May 2016.
NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority) is the implementing agency.
It is a programme to identify suitable individuals in disaster-prone regions who can be trained to be first responders in times of disasters.
Aim:
- To provide the community volunteers with the skills that they would need to respond to their community’s immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster thereby enabling them to undertake basic relief and rescue tasks during emergency situations such as floods, flash-floods and urban flooding.
Objectives:
- Training institutions to be empanelled by respective States/UTs at the State/UT level.
- To train community volunteers in life saving skills of disaster response (flood relief and rescue), coordination, assistance, and provide personal protective equipment and emergency responder kits;
- To create a Community Emergency Stockpile/Reserve at the district/block level containing essential light search and rescue equipment, medical first aid kits, etc;
- To disseminate training and education tools developed under the project to more flood prone districts in subsequent phases of the scheme.