A proactive approach

PM Narendra Modi initiated the National Disaster Management Plan last year

With reference to Vinayak Chaterjee’s article, “Making infrastructure disaster resilient” (July 25), it is a welcome decision by the United Nations to name the framework for disaster risk reduction after a Japanese city, Sendai. Japan has faced all types of natural disasters and because of the amazing resilience of the Japanese they have emerged out of those crises at the earliest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated the National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) last year. The efficiency of the National Disaster Management Authority, which has been in existence for the last 12 years, is nothing to write home about. With NDMP every