Second meeting of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Second meeting of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Question: The first meeting of ‘National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’ was organized in…
(a) 2005
(b) 2007
(c) 2009
(d) 2013
Ans: (d)
Related Fact :

  • On May 15, 2017, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the two-day second meeting of ‘National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’ (NPDRR) in New Delhi.
  • The theme of the Second meeting of NPDRR is “Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable Development: Making India resilient by 2030”.
  • The first meeting of NPDRR was held during 13 -14 May 2013 in New Delhi on the theme ‘Mainstreaming DRR in Development: From Risk to Resilience’.
  • The ‘National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’ is a multi-stakeholders National Platform headed by the Union Home Minister. It promotes participatory decision making in disaster management, and strengthens federal policy of our country.
  • The NPDRR meeting will have one Plenary Session, one session on outcomes of pre-events, four technical sessions on four priority areas of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, one technical session on monitoring of Sendai Framework and a closing cum valedictory session.
  • It is notable that the Sendai Framework is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk by sharing the responsibility with stakeholders like local government, the private sector and other stakeholders.
  • The Sendai Framework is the successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015.

Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=161788
http://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/hfa-post2015