National Institute of Disaster Management
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Motto | Resilient India- Disaster free India |
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Established | 1995 |
Mission |
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President | Union Home Minister of India |
Executive Director | Rajendra Ratnoo |
Faculty | 16 |
Staff | 22 |
Owner | Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |
Formerly called | National Centre for Disaster Management ( Upgraded to present status on 16 October 2003 ) |
Address | Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi-110001 |
Location | , |
Coordinates | 28°38′06″N 77°13′26″E / 28.635°N 77.224°E |
Website | www |
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is an Indian education and research institution located in Connaught Place, New Delhi. NIDM is primarily responsible for the training and capacity development programs for managing natural disasters in India.
It was constituted under an
History
The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction,[3][4] proposed with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction prompted the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, the nodal ministry for disaster management in India to establish a national centre for management and planning the control of such natural disasters in 1995.
The centre was later upgraded as the National Institute of Disaster management (NIDM) on 16 October 2003, with the transfer of responsibility for disaster management to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The institute was inaugurated by the Home Minister on 11 August 2004.[5]
Responsibilities
The National Disaster Management Act of 2005 granted the institute statutory organisation status. The Act holds the institute responsible for "planning and promoting training and research in the area of disaster management, documentation and development of national level information base relating to disaster management policies, prevention mechanisms and mitigation measures".[6]
The NIDM has been mandated to be a deemed university and institute of excellence in learning and capacity building. NIDM has worked with other organisations to develop a model curriculum for strengthening disaster management in higher education and research. Most central universities have envisaged the operation of Centres for Disaster Management under their School of Environmental Studies.
Training
NIDM works under the government's directives to train and conduct periodic checks to regulate effective earthquake and disaster control policies throughout the country with support from semi-government, private firms and
The National Disaster Management Authority and Delhi Disaster Management Authority jointly conducted the drills at several places across the national capital.
See also
References
- ^ "Disaster Management Act 2005" (PDF). NDMA. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ^ Aparna Meduri (2006). E.N.Murthy (ed.). "The Disaster Management Act, 2005". The ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law. (6–11). The ICFAI University Press.
- ^ United Nations General Assembly Session 54 Resolution 219. A/RES/54/219 3 February 2000. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
- ^ "Our Mandate". The United Nations The Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ "NIDM Genesis".
- ^ National Institute of Disaster Management. "Genesis and Functions". Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ "Mega drill in Delhi to test quake readiness". The Hindu. New Delhi. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.