National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will celebrate its formation day on Monday, 28th Oct, 2024 in New Delhi.

Key Points

• Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah will grace 20th Formation Day inaugural ceremony of the event.
• The theme of this year’s formation day is ‘Empowering Communities for Disaster Risk Reduction Through Awareness for Behavioral Change” to give impetus to awareness generation activities for bringing behavioural changes in the identified segments of the communities living in and around the disaster-prone areas and achieve the goal of disaster risk reduction. 
• Three Technical sessions centered around the main theme: i) ‘Voices from the communities coping with shift in weather pattern’, ii) ‘Disaster Risk Reduction - Technology for last mile communication’, iii) ‘Slow onset weather events, Awareness on Climate Change and DRR’, will be organized during the event. Apart from this, the launch of several documents viz. Guidelines, SOPs, and Books on different disaster themes are on the cards.