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Roles and Responsibilities of Disaster management Institute During Normal Time

§         Developing a National Disaster Plan, and associated practical guidelines for those responsible for its implementation;

§         Establishing facilities, information systems operating procedures, and telecommunications systems, for a national emergency operations centre (EOC) control room, for immediate use when an emergency arises;

§         Working with the Planning Commission and concerned line agencies to increase awareness of disaster risks and ensure that such risks, and possibilities to reduce them, are considered and appropriate measures incorporated in development planning.;

§         Monitoring and reporting to the Government/Parliament on the risks faced, the vulnerability of people and economic assets to known hazards, the status of preparedness in the country

During Emergency time       

§         Ensuring the effective dissemination of appropriate warnings, of flood, cyclones, earthquakes,  (through collaboration with BMD, BWDB, CPP,  Radio, TV, and authorities in particular).    

§         Activating and operating the national EOC (control room), receiving, analyzing, storing, incoming information.       

§         Providing secretarial services and expert advice to the National Disaster Management Council (NDMC) and Inter-ministerial Disaster   Management Co-ordination Committee (IMDMCC).

During Post-Disaster Recovery:

§                     Co-operating with the Planning Commission and line agencies, as required in compiling data on reconstruction requirements and work in co-ordination to prepare  an integrated reconstruction program.       

§         Ensuring that risk reduction measures are built into all reconstruction programs as much as possible.