After Turkey-Syria quakes, world has recognised India's role in disaster management efforts: PM Modi
New Delhi, March 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 3rd Session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 in the national capital on Friday, stating that 'Local Resilience by Local Participation' is the mantra for disaster management success.
In his remarks to the session, the Prime Minister emphasised the importance of measures such as timely response in ensuring the lowest possible losses during a disaster. "You will get success only by following the mantra of Local Resilience by Local participation. The timely response, strengthened means of communication, real-time registration and monitoring of each street and each house can ensure the least possible losses and damages during the disasters," PM Modi added.
"We have to make a new guideline keeping in mind disaster management. For this we have to work at two levels - 1. Disaster management experts should pay maximum attention to local participation. 2. We have to make people aware of the dangers associated with disasters," he further said.
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The Prime Minister stated that India has always had a local disaster management system.
"The system related to disaster management in India has always been local, the solutions have been local & strategy has been local too. The people of Kutch live in mudhouses called Bhunga. Kutch was the centre of a massive earthquake at the beginning of this century. But there was no impact on these Bhunga houses," he added.
Using the example of the past, the Prime Minister emphasised the importance of developing a dynamic disaster management system for the country.
"In the old times, there was one 'vaidyaraj' in the entire village who used to treat everyone. Today, there are different doctors for different ailments. Similarly, there is a need to develop a dynamic system for disaster management," the PM said.
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- ANI
