Question: The Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 2016 is scheduled to be held from November 3-5, 2016 in which of the following city?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Pune
(c) New Delhi
(d) Bengaluru
Ans: (c)
Related facts:
- From November 3-5, 2016; 7th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 2016; held at New Delhi.
- The Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2016.
- This is the first major inter-governmental event after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).
- The Sendai Framework, adopted at the third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan in March, 2015.
- It is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda and identifies targets and priority action areas towards reducing disaster risk.
- The Conference discussed the issues related to DRR in 6 technical, 22 thematic and 3 featured sessions during the Conference.
• Established in 2005, AMCDRR is a biennial conference jointly organized by different Asian countries and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
• So far, six AMCDRR conferences have been organised.
• India had also hosted the second AMCDRR in New Delhi in 2007.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=153198