Management

At the National Level

Ministry of Home Affairs is the Nodal Ministry for of the project. National Institute of Disaster Management has been entrusted with execution of the project w.e.f. 2008-09. A Project Management Board (PMB) has been constituted under the Chairpersonship of Secretary (Border Management) in the MHA to provide overall guidance to the programme. The project implementation is overseen by a Programme Steering Committee (PSC) consisting of the members of the Core Group on Earthquake Mitigation and representatives of various resource institutes across the country, under the chairmanship of the Executive Director, NIDM with Joint Secretary (DM-II), MHA as co-chair.

At the State level

In each State/UT, the programme will be reviewed periodically by a Steering Committee under the Relief Commissioner. The committee would have select members of the SRIs and subject matter specialists.

Role of NRIs/SRIs

The Resource Institutions at the National level will develop and print manuals, training modules, and earthquake risk management aids/materials. The State level Resource Institutions have to provide training to cadre of engineers from concerned agencies and departments in earthquake engineering. They would in-turn facilitate training of local masons in seismic safe constructions and retrofitting.