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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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