NDMA to train one lakh volunteers in disaster management by March-end
updated: Dec 27 2020, 07:00 ist The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is planning to train one lakh volunteers in 350 districts prone to natural disasters by this March by extending the Aapda Mitra scheme, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home. This is aimed at having a pool of volunteers who can respond to their community's immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster thereby enabling them to undertake basic relief and rescue tasks during emergencies like floods, flash-floods and urban flooding among other disasters. The NDM...
Source: deccanherald.com