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Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management

The functions of the forum are:

1. To identify problems relating to Disaster Management and make suggestions / recommendations for consideration and appropriate action by the Government / Organizations concerned to reduce the effects of disasters.

2. To identify the ways of involving Members of Parliament to interact with specialists of National and International Bodies working on Disaster Management with increased effort to develop new technologies to mitigate the effect of disasters.

3. To organize seminars / workshops to create awareness about the causes and effects of disasters among the Members of Parliament.

4. To identify the ways of involving Members of Parliament to spread awareness about disaster management.

5. To undertake such other related task as it may deem fit.