A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN INDIA

India is one of the danger susceptible international locations in South Asia. Floods, droughts, landslides, snowstorms, hurricanes and cyclones arise regularly. Among those earthquakes, floods and drought hazard are extraordinarily high. These dangers threaten hundreds of thousands of lives and purpose big scale financial, infrastructure, agriculture and productiveness losses that severely avoid India’s general improvement. The GOI have a country wide emergency plan for catastrophe control, a number of the nation additionally has a catastrophe control plan. It analytically evaluates the exceptional levels via which catastrophe control institutional shape has long gone via and gift device is reached in India. The Planning Commission, that is the one of the superior agency coping with improvement trouble of the us of a, taken into consideration approximately the catastrophe mitigation and control after greater than fifty years of independence in 2002 in Tenth Five 12 months Plan. The 3 consecutive screw ups in India associated with Cyclone (1999), Earthquake (2001), and Tsunami (2004) made us realise approximately the pressing want of a complete and holistic catastrophe control device which results in Disaster Management Act in 2005. The Prime Minister is at the top of catastrophe control device in India indicates the significance being given through the charter to the trouble