Directorate of Disaster Management

The Directorate of Disaster Management has introduced and implementing Disaster Management in Higher Education (DMHE) programme in all colleges and higher institutes of A&N Islands. The above programme has been launched on 25.07.2017 with a vision - “To Develop, Promote and Prepare Youths for managing disasters in ANI” for creating disaster preparedness in Higher Education. The main objective of DMHE are to enhance capacity of Colleges/Institutions to tackle any crisis situation and to minimize and avoid losses, to prepare and develop Colleges/Institutions Disaster Management plan, to strengthen the alert, warning and communication system of Colleges/Institutions, identification of escape routes in the Colleges/Institutions, to constitute and train College/Institution level task forces for first response and use available resources for Evacuation, Search & Rescue, First Aid and Relief Operations, to sensitize on disaster preparedness and safety measures, identify hazard profile of the Colleges/Institutions for its mitigation, to carry out Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities by the students of Colleges/Institutions, to motivate direct participation of students/youths in the disaster awareness activities in ANI. The DMHE programme is being implementing in 11 Colleges/institution of this UT.