NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY (NDMA)

About NDMA:

• Parent body: Ministry of Home Affairs.
  
  
• Primary Objective: To coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response.
  
  
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• Functions:
  • It is responsible for framing policies, laying down guidelines and best-practices and coordinating with the State Disaster Management Authorities (SDMAs) to ensure a holistic and distributed approach to disaster management.
    
    
  • Collaborates with the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy to impart training to administration and police officers in planning and incident response.
    
    
  • It monitors and develops guidelines for the local Firefighting Services across the country.
    
    
  • It collaborates with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in developing emergency health and ambulance services.
    
    
  
  
  
• Origin: NDMA was established through the Disaster Management Act enacted by the Government of India in 2005.
  
  
• Organisation setup:
  • The Prime Minister is the ex-officio chairperson of the NDMA, who chairs a 9-member board.
    
    
  • The remainder of the board consists of members nominated based on their expertise in areas such as, planning, infrastructure management, communications, meteorology etc.
    
    
  • The day-to-day management of the agency is overseen by the office of the Vice Chair.