Nepal

Disaster Management Act 2017

Legislative

Act

Passed in 2017

The Disaster Management Act establishes the policies to ensure an operational organisation to face disasters such as firefighting,flooding, deforestation and destruction of physical infrastructure.

The act provides the followinf goals: 1) to assess the potential impact of natural disasters, to identify the location of the threat, to map the level of risk and crisis; 2) to transmit or develop a system for early warning systems; 3) to have a common public role in conducting emergency search, rescue and rescue operations; 4) to conduct public awareness activities related to the development of the country, etc.

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