Skip to content
Climate Change Laws of the World logo globeClimate Change Laws of the World logo text

The Disaster Management Act, 2005

2005Disaster Risk ManagementLegislativeActMore details
Sectors: Economy-wide
This Act is the key piece of legislation to organise India's response to manmade and natural disasters. It sets out specific rules for capacity-building, preparedness and mitigation of disasters.

Main document

The Disaster Management Act, 2005
PDF

Timeline

Show

Note

CCLW national policies

The summary of this document was written by researchers at the Grantham Research Institute . If you want to use this summary, please check terms of use for citation and licensing of third party data.