Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development and Disaster Management Plans is an important mandate of the Disaster Management Act 2005. Already there is an emerging consensus that the key to achieve sustained reduction in disaster loses lies in factoring risk considerations into development activities. Risk sensitive land-use planning, building regulations with provisions for structural safety against natural hazards, construction of hazard resistant infrastructures including housing, mechanism for disaster risk audit, catastrophic risk insurance etc. could reduce future disaster risks. Master Planning for the future is an important feature of Disaster Risk Reduction.

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