{"id":243244,"date":"2023-05-20T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243244"},"modified":"2023-05-20T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T13:57:54","slug":"india-has-allocated-29bn-to-cut-disaster-risk-pm-aide-in-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-has-allocated-29bn-to-cut-disaster-risk-pm-aide-in-un\/","title":{"rendered":"India has allocated $29bn to cut disaster risk: PM aide in UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India has allocated $29bn to cut disaster risk: PM aide in UN<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published i<\/span>n<b> TOI <\/b>on <b>20th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">review meeting of the Sendai Framework at the UN General Assembly, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India highlighted the steps taken by India against Disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-discuss-the-7-targets-of-sendai-framework-for-disaster-risk-reduction-2015-2030-how-sendai-framework-envision-to-achieve-these-targets\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the steps taken by India against disasters?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has significantly increased funding for disaster risk reduction (DRR) \u2014 $6 billion towards Disaster risk reduction(DRR) mitigation over the five-year period (2021-2025) and $23 billion meant for preparedness, response and recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In just over a decade, India has been able to reduce the loss of lives from cyclones to less than 2%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is also developing ambitious mitigation programmes to reduce the risk of losses from all hazards \u2014 landslides, glacial lake outbursts, earthquakes, forest fires, heat waves and lightning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been the first responder against disasters across continents. It had recently sent its National Disaster Response Force to Turkey and Syria during earthquakes, dispatching field hospitals and search and rescue teams and medical relief material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under India\u2019s presidency, G20 members have agreed to establish a working group on Disaster risk reduction(DRR). The five priorities identified by the G20 working group are: <strong>1)<\/strong> early warning for all, <strong>2)<\/strong> resilient infrastructure, <strong>3)<\/strong> improved financing of DRR, <strong>4)<\/strong> systems and capacities for response and \u2018build back better\u2019 and <strong>5)<\/strong> ecosystem based approaches to DR<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia has allocated $29bn to cut disaster risk: PM aide in UN\u201d published in TOI on 20th May 2023 What is the News? At the review meeting of the Sendai Framework at the UN General Assembly, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India highlighted the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-has-allocated-29bn-to-cut-disaster-risk-pm-aide-in-un\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India has allocated $29bn to cut disaster risk: PM aide in UN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-243244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}