Sunday 22 May 2016

Minister Revenue & Land Reform Department applauded for development of DRR Roadmap Implementation Plan




On the second day of Workshop on Developing Implementation Plan for DRR Roadmap participants’ deliberation resulted into Bihar DRR Roadmap’s Implementation Plan

Patna. Disaster Management Department (DMD), Government of Bihar (GoB) in collaboration with Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA) in partnership with UNICEF, Save the Children, Oxfam India, Caritas, Plan and IDF organized a two-day ‘Workshop on Developing Implementation Plan’ for Roadmap 2015-30.
On the second and last day of the workshop Shri Madan Mohan Jha, Minister, Revenue & Land Reform Department praised the DMD and other stakeholders for coming up with Implementation Plan in participative manner. Total four Break-Out Technical Sessions were held in order to discuss and finalize the Implementation Plan of the Bihar DRR Roadmap. These four sessions included- ‘Exploring partnerships for DRR Roadmap implementation’; Departmental Action Plan and support required for effective implementation of DRR Roadmap’; ‘RISU, Baseline & Data management system and defining indexes’ and ‘Capacity Building and Public Awareness and Education’. 
‘Exploring partnerships for DRR Roadmap implementation’ technical session was organized by Save the Children. Dr. Gagan, OSD, Department of Revenue & Land Reforms, GoB moderated this session with participation of Shri Ray Kancharla, Save the Children and Prof. Neel Ratan, ANSISS as technical experts. Also representatives from NGOs, CSOs, Academic institutions, Corporates and development partners. Similarly, Shri Rafay Eajaz Hussain, General Manger, Save the Children moderated another technical session- Departmental Action Plan and support required for effective implementation of DRR Roadmap’. As technical experts Dr. U.K. Misha, Member BSDMA, Dr. Muzaffar Ahmed, Former member, NDMA and Sri Sarbjit Sahota, Unicef led the sessions. Sri Vyas Ji, Principal Secretary, DMD, GoB and Prof. Vinod Menon, Founder member, NDMA coordinated RISU, Baseline & Data management system and defining indexes session which has participation of DMD, BSDMA, Agriculture Dept., Health Dept., Finance Dept. and Planning & Development Dept. Capacity Building and Public Awareness and Education has participation from NDRF, SDRF, BIPARD and BSDMA.
All these technical breakout session witnessed active and valuable contribution of all participants from diverse background and expertise. There has been intense deliberations with regard to role and responsibilities of various departments and CSOs; issue of inclusive coordination; action plan with clear demarcation of stipulated duties; issue of capacity building of various stakeholders till last line and importance of mass awareness and engagement for success of roadmap.
Workshop concluded with Consolidation Plenary and Valedictory Session, which involved amalgamation of various inputs and suggestions discussed under the two day workshop. This resulted into draft of summarized implementation plan. Consolidation Plenary and Valedictory Session has been moderated by Prof. Santosh Kumar, Executive Director, NIDM and Shri Kamla Kishore, member NDMA, Prof. Vinod Menon, NDMA and Muzaffar Ahmad, former member NDMA participated as panellists.
In the backdrop of the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in March, 2015 in Sendai, Japan Government of Bihar organised the “First Bihar Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (BCDRR)” on 13 -14th May 2015 at Patna for developing the DRR Roadmap of the state for 2015-2030. Followed to which on 8-9 January 2016 a two day Validation meeting was held, this resulted into finalization of the Bihar DRR Roadmap 2015-30. On 28th April 2016, Bihar Roadmap been approved by Bihar Cabinet. With this two day (20- 21 May 2016) workshop on Developing Implementation Plan, through extensive deliberation a detailed action- plan for the implementation of roadmap has been developed. The implementation plan development process has been elaborate and enriching with participation and inputs from multiple sources.



- Dr. Gagan, OSD, Department of Revenue & Land Reforms, GoB M.- +91- 99346 13372; Email- kamnagagan@yahoo.co.in

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