A High-Level Committee chaired by Amit Shah approved Rs 507.37 crore for a national project to enhance disaster risk reduction at the village level, extending the National Disaster Mitigation Fund to ...

All around the world natural disasters continue to wreak havoc as emergency managers strive for new ways to reduce the damage through sound mitigation practices. At the same time, several indigenous ...

The approval marks a significant expansion of the National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF), launched by the Modi Government in 2021 to build a disaster-resilient society.

Elizabeth Zimmerman is the former FEMA associate administrator and deputy associate administrator for response and recovery from 2009 to 2017, where she led the response and recovery operations of 938 ...

Ministers from the G20, or Group of Twenty recently came together in Johannesburg, South Africa to address major global ...

Disaster risk reduction should be embedded in policymaking, especially industrial and spatial planning, to prevent economic ...

Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal has said the mitigation of disaster risk in an effective way is not possible in absence of community initiation and engagement. During his address at the fourth National ...

India is committed to translate its “voluntary high-level principles” into action through innovation, and inclusive financing for disaster risk reduction (DRR), while strengthening international ...

New Delhi, December 18 (IANS): The national project for strengthening community-based disaster risk reduction initiatives in ...