On Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will preside over a meeting with the ministers responsible for Disaster Management from various states and Union Territories. The day-long meeting will include the participation of Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, as well as senior officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Given the existing challenges in disaster management, the meeting aims to emphasize preparedness for addressing future phases of such challenges.
The meeting is learnt to be part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s holistic approach towards disaster management to make it relief-centric, early warning-centric, proactive and early preparedness-based.
The Home Minister has said that earlier the country had only a relief-centric approach towards disaster management which did not involve minimizing the loss of life and property, but this approach changed after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister.Ministry of Home Affairs has fixed targets for every five years and every year till 2047, for which it is working with full readiness.Last year, the Home Minister also chaired a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs on “Disaster Management” at Kevadiya in Gujarat.