Thanks to Anup Karanth for providing an update on a significant move by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) towards making buildings and infrastructure more disaster resilient. Please refer below an e-mail I received from Anup Karanth (Anup is a Civil Engineer and Planner working extensively in Disaster Management and Capacity Building sector) for more details on this development. It is indeed encouraging that the RBI has come out with a notification on this issue, which may go a long way in ensuring that the NDMA Guidelines are taken more seriously.
One can download the document here (In English, directly from Government of India NDMA Website - or from our website.
In verbatim below:
From: Anup Karanth [mailto:anup.karanth@gmail.com]
Sent: 01 June 2011 12:42
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: National Disaster Management Guidelines on Ensuring Disaster Resilient construction of Buildings and Infrastructure (NDMA, GoI)
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India has formulated guidelines on ensuring disaster resilient construction of buildings and infrastructure financed through banks and other lending institutions. The NDMA has observed that in the context of disaster resilience there are certain critical gaps and the guidelines aim at addressing these gaps in the current process of approving the loan applications. It has been observed that the structural design of the proposed buildings and structures are not completed before submitting the application for a bank loan and no processes are in place at the banks to ensure that disaster resilience has indeed been incorporated in the assets during the design process at least before the construction begins. A copy of National Disaster Management Guidelines on Ensuring Disaster Resilient construction of Buildings and Infrastructure, September 2010 is enclosed.
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