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Aapada Mitra Programme

  • 29 Sep 2021
  • 3 min read

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Recently, the government has announced plans to have Disaster Management Volunteers (Aapda Mitras) in 350 districts of the country also released documents for Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

  • CAP is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks.

Key Points

National Disaster Management Authority

  • NDMA is the apex statutory body for disaster management in India. It is headed by the Prime Minister of India.
  • It was formally constituted on 27th September 2006, in accordance with the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
  • Its primary purpose is to coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response.
  • It envisages to build a safer and disaster resilient India by a holistic, proactive, technology driven and sustainable development strategy that involves all stakeholders and fosters a culture of prevention, preparedness and mitigation.

Source: IE

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