"Modi govt managing disasters by adopting proactive approach instead of reactive one": Amit Shah

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha during the discussion, the Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation said that through this amendment bill, the Narendra Modi government intends to connect the Centre, State governments, Panchayat and all our citizens with the cause of disaster management, and there is no question of centralisation of power.

He said that this disaster management amendment bill is an attempt to take the fight against disasters from a reactive approach to a proactive one and also beyond to an innovative and participatory approach.

Union Home Minister said that through this bill, the Modi government wants to move from reactive response to proactive risk reduction, from manual monitoring to AI-based real-time monitoring, from radio warnings to social media, apps and mobile warnings, and from government-led response to a multi-dimensional response involving society and citizens.

Shah said that this entire bill has been made to incorporate capacity, intensity, efficiency and accuracy in disaster response. "In the last 10 years, there has been a change in disaster management in our country due to which we have emerged as a regional and global power recognized by the world," he said.

Shah said that this bill is necessary to maintain this success story of India for a longer time in future.

The Union Home Minister said that in the last ten years, on the one hand, Prime Minister Modi Ji has done many things for environmental protection and on the other hand, he has also taken disaster management a long way forward. He said that on one hand, Modi Ji talked about Mission Life in front of the world and on the other hand he also announced a ten-point disaster risk reduction agenda.

Shah said that on one hand, a definite concrete program was given to become a pro-planet people, and on the other hand, the Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure (CDRI) was presented to the world, which has 43 countries as members.

Further, Amit Shah said that after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, a holistic and integrated approach was introduced in the country instead of a relief-centric approach. He said that a proactive approach was adopted instead of a reactive one, and disaster management was done by keeping the target of zero casualties instead of the usual target of minimum casualty of the previous regime.

Shah said that today, governments not only focus on relief and rescue after a disaster but also make many preparations to tackle them.

"The Modi government has done a very good job in early warning system, prevention to the extent possible, mitigation, timely preparedness and disaster risk reduction," he said. (ANI)