National Disaster Response Force
Formation :
- Two national calamities in quick succession in the form of Orissa super cyclone(1999) and Gujarat Earthquake(2001) brought about the realization of having a specialist response mechanism at National Level to effectively respond to such disasters.
- This realization led to the enactment of Disaster Management act on 26 Dec 2005.
- The NDMA was constituted to formalize the plans,policies and guidelines for DM.
- NDRF established in 2009
Constitutes :
- DM act has made statutory provisions to make NDRF for the purpose of specialized response to natural and man-made disasters.
- Accordingly , NDRF was constituted with 8 battalions(2 each from BSF,CRPF,ITBP,CISF).
- Present location of NDRF Bns are as follows:
- Ghaziabad
- Bhatinda
- Kolkata
- Guwahati
- Mundali,Orissa
- Arakkonam , TN
- Pune
- GandhiNagar
- Patna(under construction)
- Guntur, Andhra Pradesh(under construction)
