Modi Govt Has Rescue-centric Approach To Handle Disasters: Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi government's approach and strategy to handle any disaster since 2014 is rescue-centric rather than relief-centric, thus reducing casualties and damage significantly.

- Press Trust Of India

Chairing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on ‘Disaster Management and _ Capacity Building’ here, he said many major policy-related and institutional decisions have been taken in the field of disaster management in the past 10 years.

The disaster-response policy of the Modi government is based on the four pillars of capacity building, speed, efficiency, and accuracy, Shah said.

This has resulted in significant prevention during disasters, from the 1999 super cyclone in Odisha that killed 10,000 people to the 2023 Biparjoy in Gujarat and 2024 Dana in Odisha with zero casualties, he said.