Articles

The Need to Activate the National Disaster Management Authority in Pandemic Times

India is facing a health emergency of unprecedented proportions. The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed over 250,000 lives and infected over 24 million people in India. It is now rapidly spreading to rural areas where health infrastructure is mea....

May 18, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Article , COVID-19 , NDMA , MHA , Disaster Management Act , DDMA , SDMA

Recommendations: Oxygen Management for Current and Future Covid-19 Waves

(VIF Experts Group Report) Article

Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in conjunction with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conducted an interaction to determine the challenges in the provisioning of additional medical oxy....

May 07, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Article , COVID-19 , Task force , NDMA , Oxygen , audit , Data Bank , distribution , Grid

Operationalising the Supply Chain of Corporates as an effective Disaster Management Response

Dr Swati Mitra Article

Introduction

The Pandemic has re-drawn lines in the entire gamut of the social system wherein concepts like globalization, industrialization, information technology etc, have re-coined themselves. Mankind’s imaginative ideas that had cr....

February 24, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Disaster Management , Article , Pandemic , Supply chains , sustainable development , NDMA , CFC , corporate social responsibility , Parsonian state

Conference on Revisiting India's Response Mechanism Challenges and Way Forward

A one day Conference on 'Revisiting India's Disaster Response Mechanism : Challenges and Way Forward' was organized by the VIF in collaboration with Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) on May 6, 2016. Shri KirenRijiju, Hon'ble Minister of State for....

May 29, 2017 Conference , Governance and Political Studies , Conferences , India's Response Mechanism , PPF , NDRF , NDMA , Civil Defence

Seminar on ‘Towards Reducing Earthquake Risks of India’

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a seminar ‘Towards Reducing Earthquake Risks of India’ in collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on April 12, 2012. Held, by coincidence, against the backdrop of a....

April 18, 2012 Seminar_57 , National Security and Strategic Studies , Disaster Management , Seminars , NDMA , Earthquake Risks , India Ocean