K'taka disaster risk reduction roadmap launched

THE Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) along with UNICEF launched Karnataka State Disaster Risk Reduction Road Map (KSDRR) 2025-2030 on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on Monday.

- RASHMI PATIL @ Bengaluru

Karnataka is now the fifth state to launch the Disaster Risk Reduction roadmap, following Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Assam. Noting that the state witnessed around ₹1 lakh crore losses in the last five years due to natural disasters, Mullai Muhilan, Director, KSNDMC, said, the KSNDMC aims to prevent and tackle these disasters through systematic road map.

"The theme on this day is 'Fund Resilience, Not Disasters', and that is why this road map is a framework of existing solutions to reduce and prevent losses by mitigating floods, drought, earthquakes, heat waves and so on."