The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) had organized the First India Disaster Management Congress in Vigyan Bhavan New Delhi on 29-30 November 2006. Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India inaugurated the Congress. More than 1200 hundred delegates from all over the country attended and 350 technical papers were presented in 18 Thematic Sessions organized around Thematic Clusters. Besides a Dialogue on Public-Private-Partnership on Disaster Risk reduction was held at Taj Mansingh Hotel in collaboration with World Economic Forum, World Bank and UN/ISDR. This was the largest knowledge conference on disaster management ever held in this part of the world. Encouraged by the resounding success of the First India Disaster Management Congress NIDM has decided to organize the Second India Disaster Management Congress in New Delhi on 4-6, February 2009 on an even larger scale. While the Inaugural and Valedictory Sessions shall be held in Plenary in Hotel Ashok and Vigyan Bhavan respectively, as many as 75 Technical Sessions are proposed to be organized around Thematic Clusters in different campuses – Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Technology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences etc. The Second India Disaster Management Congress is expected to bring together 1500 scientists, scholars and practitioners working on different aspects of disaster risk reduction and management across the world.