KATHMANDU, APRIL 4
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayankaji Shrestha has asserted that the disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) should be a national agenda.
Taking stock of the performance of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) here today, DPM Shrestha said that Nepal was facing the risk of climate change hence disaster reduction and management should be accorded high priority.
Speaking of the need to end lack of early preparedness for disasters, Shrestha expressed his confidence that some concrete initiatives would be taken towards this end.
DPM Shrestha, who is also Chairperson of the Authority, shared that the meeting of Authority's executive committee would be summoned soon and immediate undertakings and strategic actions would be taken forward accordingly to reduce and manage the disasters.
Similarly, DRRMA chief executive officer Anil Pokharel enlightened DPM Shrestha on the latest condition of disasters, procedure put in place by the Authority for DRRM and the Authority's expectation from the Ministry of Home Affairs for effectiveness of reduction and management of the disasters.
While briefing the DPM, Pokharel said that in the context of increasing cases of disasters incurring huge loss of lives and physical infrastructures lately, the Authority, attaching higher priority to DRRM, was delivering on it.
Bearing in mind the prospects of damages to be caused by upcoming monsoon-induced disasters, the Authority appraised DPM Shrestha about early-preparedness to mitigate the risk of natural disasters such as flood, landslide.
