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India's National Disaster Management Plan

2019PolicyDisaster Risk Management
Sectors: Disaster Risk Management (Drm)
The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) provides a framework and direction to government agencies for all phases of disaster management cycle. It notably covers disasters provoked by climate change effects.

The NDMP has five main pillars:
  1. Conforming to the naonal legal mandates—the DM Act 2005 and the NPDM 2009
  2. Participating proactively to realising the global goals as per agreements to which India is signatory—Sendai Framework for DRR, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an Conference of Parties (COP21) Paris Agreement on Climate Change
  3. Prime Minister’s Ten Point Agenda for DRR arculang contemporary national priorities
  4. Social inclusion as a ubiquitous and cross-cutting principle
  5. Mainstreaming DRR as an integral feature
Examples:
Resilient infrastructure, Fossil fuel divestment, Net zero growth plan, Sustainable fishing

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