Angikaar Campaign – Burning Issues – Free PDF

Context

• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched “Angikaar”.
• A campaign for change management and e-Course on Vulnerability Atlas of India.

 About the Campaign

• Collaboration of School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi and Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC).
• It is a unique course that offers awareness
• understanding about natural hazards,
• helps identify regions with high vulnerability with respect to various hazards (earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, floods, etc.)
• and specifies district-wise level of damage risks to the existing housing stock.
• The e-course will be a tool for effective & efficient disaster mitigation & management
• Angikaar aims for social behaviour change
• The campaign will converge with schemes and Missions of other Ministries
• The convergence would especially focus on Ujjwala for gas connection and Ayushman Bharat

Vulnerability Atlas of India

• PM has released the Third Edition of Vulnerability Atlas of India March, 2019.
• This edition contains additional digitized maps for Thunderstorms, Cyclones and Landslides.
• The Atlas also presents the districtwise Housing Vulnerability Risk Tables
• The Atlas is a useful tool not only for public but also for urban managers, State & National Authorities dealing with disaster mitigation and management.

Challenges

• Insufficient levels of implementation
• Lack of local capacities
• Absence of integration of climate change into Disaster risk management plans.
• Divergence of obtaining political and economic commitments
• Due to poor coordination between stakeholders,
• Insufficient investment in building disaster resilient strategies.

Way Forward

• People-centered development strategy.
• Strong political will,
• Decentralised planning, implementation and monitoring and control.
• Institutionalising national systems and capacities.
• Integrating the sustainable development goals.

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