Home Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate on Monday the two-day-long National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) which will be attended by over 1,000 distinguished guests including union ministers, parliamentarians, heads of local self Government, heads of specialised disaster management agencies besides others. The NPDRR is a multi-stakeholders national platform headed by the home minister and it promotes participatory decision making in disaster management and strengthens federal policy of the country.
The NPDRR meet will on the theme “Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable Development: Making India resilient by 2030”, an official statement said. The meeting will have a plenary session, one session on outcomes of pre-events, four technical sessions on four priority areas of Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, one technical session on monitoring of Sendai framework and a closing cum valedictory session.
Besides, there will be an exclusive ministerial session after the inaugural ceremony, where ministers from the Centre, States and Union Territories will deliberate on various aspects of disaster risk reduction. The home ministry with the help of the NITI Aayog has also organised an online call from startups and innovators in the areas like fire fighting, GPS-based solutions, search and rescue operations, reconstruction, low cost shelter etc. In MyGov.In for display during the NPDRR meet.