India told UN, making plans to reduce the damage caused by all disasters

India has told the United Nations General Assembly that it attaches great importance to the issue of reducing the damage caused by various disasters and is working to reduce the loss of life and property due to all disasters, including floods, earthquakes, landslides, heat waves and lightning. is developing an ambitious mitigation program for Disaster risk reduction in India is a ‘public concern’, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi PK Mishra told a session of the mid-term review of the Sendai Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) at the plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly here on Thursday. central issue of policy.

Mishra is leading the Indian delegation to the high-level meeting at the UN Headquarters on May 18-19. He said that under the G20 chairmanship of India, the member countries have agreed to set up a ‘working group on disaster risk reduction’. Mishra said, “The five priorities identified by the G20 working group are early warning for all, resilient infrastructure, better financing for disaster risk reduction (DRR), improving systems and capabilities for response and DRR Eco-system based approach is included for

These priorities will provide additional support for achieving the goals of the Sendai Action Plan at the global level.” He told the UN General Assembly that India has significantly increased the amount earmarked for disaster risk reduction and in its financing framework to support disaster risk management needs (disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response, rehabilitation and reconstruction). Significant changes have been made.

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