The Academy of Administration, Nainital under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, innovated and established a Disaster Management Cell (DMC) in January, 1995 to study and disseminate in a coherent and timely manner the needs of those exposed to disaster and emergencies. Earlier the office order of Chief Secretary, Uttarakhand the Cell has been merged with Disaster Mitigation and Management Center, Secretariat, Dehradun. From year 2006 the DMC has again sifted from Dehradun to Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital, as an Institution for Training & Capacity building with other Research & Development works.

GOALS TO BE ACHIEVED

1. To impart training and capacity building on Disaster Management covering risk vulnerability and resources.

2. To disseminate the knowledge to teach and train professionals of different sectors.

3. To train the community and shift focus of responsibility from Govt. to community. – A prepared community is a safe community to find and promote solution to the root causes of disaster in the state of Uttarakhand.

 

THE AREAS OF ACTIVITIES OF DMC ARE AS FOLLOWS

•  Information dissemination.
•  Awareness creation.
•  Documentation.
•  Preparation of Disaster Management Action Plans.
•  Formulation of strategy for Disaster Management.
•  Training and sensitization.
•  Consultancy
•  Research & Development

 

TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF STAKEHOLDERS

Disaster Reduction through effective disaster threat analysis and the subsequent mitigation and preparedness against these threats, is the responsibility of state government, in all its ministries and departments of the public services, at all administrative levels. To ensure that the standards of analysis and planning for effective disaster preparedness meet the requirement demands that capabilities and capacities are created through instituted programs of staff training for all involved. The cell is organizing in-house training programs and out-reaches workshops/seminars/awareness camps regularly for District level officer of State govt. Uttarakhand. DMC organized various training programmes with different National level organization like NIDM, BPR&D, DoPT, DMC has conducted 16^th IPS Vertical Interaction Courses for senior IPS officers and 02 Mid Career training programmes for Armed Forces & Civil Services Officers.

DMC Faculty

Name	Designation	Details
Dr. Om Prakash Arya	Assistant Professor	View Details
Dr. Manju Pandey	Assistant Professor	View Details