Working Groups for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012)

Disaster Managment
(State Plan Division)

Dated 24th August 2006

It has been decided to set up a Working Group on "Disaster Management " for the formulation of the Eleventh Five Year Plan.

II. The Composition of the Working Group is as under:

1. Dr. Mohan Kanda, Member, National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi. Chairperson
2. Shri B.S. Lalli, Secretary, Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs Member
3. Dr. P.K. Mishra, Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi Member
4. Shri A.P.N. Sinha, Adviser, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Planning Commission Member
5. Shri Mukesh Khullar, Joint Secretary, Drought Management (DM), Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Krishi Bhavan. Member
6. Shri Ashim Khurana, Joint Secretary(DM-I), Ministry of Home Affairs Member
7. Shri R. Sridharan, Joint Secretary(State Plans), Planning Commission Member
8. Dr. A.S. Arya, Seismic Adviser, National Institute of Disaster Management, IIPA Campus, New Delhi. Member
9. Shri S.K. Agrawal, Central Water Commission, New Delhi. Member
10. Dr. K.P. Mishra, Head, Radiation Biology and Health Science Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Thrombay, Mumbai-400085 Member
11. Prof. R.K. Bhandari, Chairman, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. Member
12. Prof. C.V.R. Murthy, Deptt. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-205016. Member
13. Prof. K. Ganesh Babu, Director, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee-247667. Member
14. Dr. Rakesh Duhbey, DMI, Bhopal Member
15. Dr. U.C. Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Member
16. Dr. G.S. Mandal, Addl. Director(Retd.),India Meteorological Department, 248, Aravali Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi Member
17. Dr. K.J. Ramesh, Scientist-F, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. Member
18. Mr. D.K. Goel, Director, Narora Atomic Power Station, Narora Member
19. Maj. Gen. M. Gopal Rao. Surveyor General of India, Dehradun Member
20. Prof. Vinod K. Sharma, Chief of Party, PEER (Founded by USAID), Nepal Member
21. Mr. S.R. Kalsi, Addl. Director General (Services), India Meteorological Department, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 Member
22. Lt. Gen. D. Raghunath, Principal Executive, Sir, Dorabjee Tata Centre for Research and Innovation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012 Member
23. Secretary (Disaster Management)/Relief Commissioner, Government of Assam Member
24. Secretary (Disaster Management/ Relief Commissioner, Government of Andhra Pradesh . Member
25. Secretary (Disaster Management)/Relief Commissioner, Government of Bihar Member
26. Secretary (Disaster Management) / Relief Commissioner, Government of Gujarat Member
27. Secretary (Disaster Management)/Relief Commissioner, Government of Maharashtra Member
28. Secretary (Disaster Management)/Relief Commissioner, Government of Orissa Member
29. Secretary (Disaster Management) /Relief Commissioner, Government of Tamil Nadu Member
30. Secretary (Disaster Management)/Relief Commissioner, Government of West Bengal Member
31. Shri G.B. Sinha, Joint Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority Convenor

III. The Terms of Reference of the Working Group will be as follows:

  1. To examine the manner in which measures for disaster mitigation, preparedness and capacity building should be integrated into the development plans of the Centre and the States . To draw up guidelines that need to be followed by the Planning Commission while according approval to programmes and projects, so as to ensure integration of disaster management principles in Planning .
  2. To develop guidelines for ensuring that appropriate financial provisions to provide for disaster management are built into the cost estimates of programmes and projects .
IV. The Chairman of the Working Group may include any additional Term(s) of Reference if needed.

V. The Chairman of the Working Group may co-opt any other expert as member of the Working Group.  VI. The Working Group will submit its report latest by 31 st October, 2006. The Working Group will be serviced by the National Disaster Management Authority .VII. The expenses towards TA/DA of the official members will be met by their respective Government Departments / Institutions to which they belong as per the rules of entitlement applicable to them. The TA/DA of non-official Members will be borne by the Planning Commission as admissible to Class I officers of the Government of India as per SR 190(a) .

VIII. Director(SP-Coordination), Room No. 306, Yojana Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi (Telfax : 23096540) will act as the Nodal Officer and any further communication in this regard may be made with him .

 

Dated 9th October 2006

In supersession of Planning Commission's Order of even no. dated 24th August, 2006 on the above subject, the composition of the Working Group is modified by including the following as Members of the Working Group:

  1. Ms. Somi Tandon, Retired Secretary (Def./Fin.), Consultant, National Disaster Management Authority, Centaur Hotel, Near IGI Airport, New Delhi- 110037.
  2. Ms. Dipali Khanna, Financial Adviser, National Disaster Management Authority, Centaur Hotel, Near IGI Airport, New Delhi- 110037.
  3. Shri Naveen Verma, Joint Secretary (DM-II), Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi-110001.
  4. Shri P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti, Executive Director, NIDM, IIPA Campus, Ring Road, New Delhi.
  5. Prof. Sudhir Kumar Jain, Deptt. of Civil Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

2. The Terms of Reference of the Working Group at para 2 of the Order are revised as under :

  1. To examine the manner in which measures for disaster mitigation, preparedness and capacity building should be enhanced and integrated into the development plans of the Centre and the States.
  2. to draw up guidelines that need to be followed by the Planning Commission while according approval to programmes and projects, so as to ensure integration of disaster management principles in Planning and plan implementation.
  3. To develop guidelines for ensuring that appropriate financial provisions to provide for disaster management are built into the cost estimates of programmes and projects.

3. The other terms and conditions of the Order remain unchanged.

Dated 8th November 2006

In partial modification of Planning Commission's Order of even no. dated 9th October, 2006 on the above subject, the composition of the Working Group, as in para I of the said Order, is modified as under :-

(iii) Shri Prabhanshu Kamal
Joint Secretary (DM-II), Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi-110001.
Member
  in place of  
(iii)

Shri Naveen Verma
Joint Secretary (DM-II), Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi-110001.

Member

(2) The other terms and conditions of the Order remain unchanged.