Home Minister Rajnath Singh will attend an international conference on disaster risk reduction in Japan beginning March 14.
The Home Minister will present the official country statement on March 14 at the plenary meeting of the five-day conference on 'International Cooperation in Support of a Post-2015 Framework' to be held in Sendai.
He will also chair a ministerial round-table to be held on March 15, an official release said here.
The Home Minister will visit Onagawa, where 46 rescuers from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had worked in the rescue operations during the Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
On March 16, Singh will chair the Asian Leaders meeting, which will decide the modalities for the implementation of disaster risk reduction framework in Asia-Pacific countries.
The Home Minister will also inaugurate a Buddhist art exhibition at Tokyo national museum and interact with the members of the Indian community at Sendai and Tokyo.
About 7,000 delegates from all over the world are expected to participate in the efforts to evolve a strategy for disaster risk reduction, following the current 'Hyogo Framework of Action'.
The earlier framework has provided critical guidance to reduce disaster risks and to strengthen cooperation among stakeholders at local, national, regional and global levels.
Though member countries have made considerable progress by investing their resources in dealing with disasters, there are challenges in implementing the framework, due to diverse social and economic conditions.
The participants in the conference will share varied expertise available in the area of capacity building, risk assessment, risk financing and to identify areas where international cooperation is possible amongst member states in addition to greater political commitment.
