Relief and disaster management officials to review south-west monsoon preparedness

Relief commissioners and senior disaster management officials will review preparedness in dealing with crisis situations resulting from the South-West Monsoon here tomorrow.

Discussions on several key issues related to disaster management will also be discussed in the conference.

Representatives of the concerned departments rendering emergency support functions, scientific organisations associated with forecasting, central armed police forces and officers of the armed

forces will also participate in the conference.

The Ministry of Home Affairs, National Disaster Management Authority, National Disaster Response Force, India Meteorological Department, Indian Space Research Organisation, Central Water Commission, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Geological Survey of India, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will aslo share their efforts towards preparedness during the conference. (ANI)