Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - Lahore—Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed flood arrangements and preparedness of flood prone districts. The director general chaired a meeting of senior rescue officials at Rescue 1122’s Headquarters here on Wednesday and discussed the flood action plan. The DG was …
Integrating Disaster Risk Management into Climate Change Adaptation promotes the adoption of a risk management approach to climate-sensitive decision-making and serves as a reference to integrate DRM with climate change adaptation (CCA). It guides the reader on how to contribute to CCA by improving the management of climate extremes.
Severely hit by drought since the past few years, the Maharashtra government has outlined a Rs 60,000 crore programme which includes creating decentralised water storage to make the state drought free in three years. "Maharashtra is reeling under severe drought crisis. We have outlined an investment of Rs 60,000 crore …
Rs 90 million has been allocated to disaster management projects in Hambantota this year, said Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera. The minister expressed these views at a progress review meeting at the Ruhunupura administrative complex in Hambantota recently. He said measures have been taken to renovate dams, tanks and culverts …
The overarching aim of this paper is to examine the challenges of addressing loss and damage through national institutional arrangements that integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in Bangladesh. As DRR and CCA share many aims and methodologies, greater synthesis and coordination between these two fields …
Acknowledge the fact that the present disaster management institutional policy and practices in India, although build on science and technology at it score, haven’t been able to harness the full potential of it by establishing innovative and effective institutional mechanisms which would facilitate real time and long term coordination between …
The aim of State Disaster Management Plan is to ensure that all components of Disaster Management are addressed to facilitate planning, preparedness, operational, coordination and community participation. The purpose of Assam State Disaster Management Plan is to set out Government of Assam’s approach to Disaster Management in accordance with the …
The Mahindra Group has committed Rs 2 crore to the Maharashtra Government to provide relief to those affected by drought in the State. Maharashtra is facing a severe drought, with 15 districts and over 11,000 towns adversely affected by the lack of water and fodder for cattle. While Rs 1 …
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday approved . 511-crore assistance for Rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh – the states affected by floods and droughts in 2012. Further, an additional grant of . 256 crore was given to Maharashtra for rejuvenation …
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday approved Rs 511-crore assistance for Rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - the states affected by floods and droughts in 2012. Further, an additional grant of Rs 256 crore was given to Maharashtra for rejuvenation …
The Maharashtra government has woken up to the need for a command centre for coordinated response to disasters like terror strikes, floods and fires. It plans to house in the Mantralaya a 'state-of-the-art' unified coordination centre (UCC) and a state emergency operation centre (SEOC) to provide help to agencies-like the …
Waking up to the tidal surge threat, the Odisha government has finalised a World Bank funded comprehensive blueprint to protect the vulnerable seaside human settlements from ingress of furious sea waves in Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur districts. The Rs 45 crore project under National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Programme (NCRMP) is getting …
The government's 350-billion-baht flood prevention and drought mitigation projects look set to go ahead, despite widespread criticism. Amid protests and threats of litigation by green and civic groups, bidding for the projects will go ahead tomorrow as scheduled. Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, in his capacity as chairman of the …
The Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to set up a State Disaster Response Force on the lines of the National Disaster Response Force, which will be stationed at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati. “Discussions are on and a meeting has been convened with the Chief Secretary on forming the SDRF. The …
This new UN report explores why increasing disaster risks represent a growing problem for the economic & business community and provides a review of practices that can reduce their risk of disaster loss. It is based on review of disaster losses in 56 countries. The third edition of the United …
This book results from an international collaborative effort to explore and distil best practice approaches to flood risk management in challenging large scale and inter-related environments. Part A provides a historical perspective on the flood events that have shaped modern approaches. Part B describes emerging good practice, including: the purpose …
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 auditor's report has said. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) - set up in 2006 and chaired …
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has drawn flak from the CAG which said the apex planning and supervising body in handling calamity has been found to be ineffective in most of the key areas. In its performance audit report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said it has …
In a development which will go a long way in disaster management and mitigation, the North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), located at Umiam, Ri–Bhoi district of Meghalaya will develope an atlas to depict both disaster hazards and vulnerability for Assam. The project is part of the “Remote Sensing and …
