National Institute of Disaster Management (India)
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- To work as consulting agency for the Government by providing assistance in policy formulation and;
- To facilitate in reducing the impact of disasters through its technological innovations.
| Motto | Resilient India - Disaster free India |
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| Established | 1995 |
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| President | Home Minister of India |
| Executive Director | Shri Madhup Vyas, IAS 2000 batch |
| Faculty | 16 |
| Staff | 22 |
| Owner | Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |
| Formerly called | National Centre for Disaster Management (Upgraded to present status on 16 October 2003 ) |
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| Website | www |
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is an Indian education and research institution located in [[Plot No. 15, Pocket-3, Block-B, Sector-29, Rohini, Delhi – 110042, New Delhi]]. NIDM is primarily responsible for the training and capacity development programs for managing natural disasters in India.
It was constituted under an Act of Parliament in 1995; was re-designated to give the present name of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) by the Disaster Management Act 2005[1] assented to by the President of India on 9 January 2006.[2]
The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction,[3][4] proposed with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction prompted the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, the nodal ministry for disaster management in India to establish a national centre for management and planning the control of such natural disasters in 1995.
The centre was later upgraded as the National Institute of Disaster management (NIDM) on 16 October 2003, with the transfer of responsibility for disaster management to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The institute was inaugurated by the Home Minister on 11 August 2004.[5]