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New Delhi [India], December 21 (ANI): A national plan should be formulated under National Disaster Management Act (NDMA), 2005 and Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 for co-ordination between the centre, states and UTs for quick response to a crisis like a coronavirus in future, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended in its report on COVID-19.
The panel said that it would ensure efficacious implementation of all decisions to contain pandemics and equitable/timely distribution of relief at district and sub-divisional levels to the intended beneficiaries in urban and rural areas. NDMA is meant for handling disasters that occurs periodically every year and is not meant for handling the pandemic/ epidemic which happens in decades and even once in a century. The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, is outdated as it was framed in the colonial-era and needs revisiting, up
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