ISLAMABAD: Robust legislative amendments has been ensured by federal government to strengthen National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) for its efficient working in various disasters and natural calamities over past five years.

NDMA has implemented effective management of multiple man-made and climate-induced disasters including heavy rains, snowfall, flash floods, hill torrents, glacial lake outburst floods, urban flooding, tropical cyclones, and earthquakes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan, an NDMA official told APP.

He added that in addition, NDMA was intimately involved in responding to two major national and international emergencies, locusts and Covid-19. Steps taken by government to make NDMA more functional included amendments to NDMA Act and Subsuming of ERRA into NDMA. During 5th National Disaster Management Conference held under chairmanship of Prime Minister on March 28, 2018, subsuming of ERRA into NDMA and subsequent amendments to NDMA Act 2010 were approved, he added.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 23 2022

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