Amit Shah to chair National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Home Minister Amit Shah was on Friday named as the chairman of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR), a multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral decision making body on disaster management.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar among others are members of the panel.

In a notification, the Home Ministry said the functions of the NPDRR will be to review the progress made in the field of disaster management from time to time, appraise the extent and manner in which the disaster management policy has been implemented by the central and state governments, and other agencies concerned, and advise on coordination between the central and state governments.

The minister of state in-charge of disaster management in the home ministry and the vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority will be the NPDRR's vice-chairpersons.

The minister of each state government and union territory dealing with disaster management, a member of the state disaster management authority, mayors of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, and municipal commissioners of these cities will also be its members.

Ten chairpersons of urban local bodies, to be nominated by the urban development ministry, 10 representatives of Panchayat Raj Institutions, to be nominated by the panchayat raj ministry, four Lok Sabha members, two Rajya Sabha members, and the Union home secretary and secretaries of departments concerned will be the NPDRR's ex-officio members, the notification said.

Lok Sabha members will be nominated by Speaker and those from the Rajya Sabha by the Chairman.