NDMA member highlights need to rethink Disaster Management Act
By Karishma Mehrotra
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“The pandemic has taught us that risk is not confined. Risk ripples across sectors and geographies. We have to address the notion of systemic risk as opposed to silos of different hazards. From that perspective, I think the Disaster Management Act has to play a role of managing risk as a whole. We may have had a mixed experience of application of the law,” Kishore said at an Center for Public Research webinar looking at “Lessons for Urban Governance Futures from the Pandemic.”
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“It is a huge omission. This doesn’t really work … The act doesn’t talk about how coordination will happen when multiple administrations are affected,” he said, adding the example of coordination between states that are sending displaced persons and states that are receiving them.
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He complimented the disaster management structures of Odisha, especially in regards to cyclones. “A large part of that success is community-based mechanisms. The cyclone structures on the cost of Odisha are not managed by the government, but by communities.”
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“We have still not tapped the extent of the private sector. We already have models in TV … in the routine health services and access, can we use the private sector in a big way?” Shah said.
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