National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project
Also called: NCRMP · Topic: Natural Hazards and Disaster Management in India · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) is a programme to cut the damage cyclones do to India's coastal states. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) runs it, with support from the World Bank. It pays for systems that send cyclone warnings to people, multipurpose cyclone shelters, evacuation roads, bridges, and saline embankments (earth walls that stop salty seawater from flooding farmland). Phase I began in 2011 in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Phase II began in 2015 and added six more states. The project matters because cyclones can be predicted fairly well, so good warnings and shelters can save many lives.
Example
Odisha is on the Bay of Bengal coast and was covered in Phase I. In 1999 a super cyclone killed about 10,000 people there. When Cyclone Phailin struck in 2013, about a million people were moved to safety and few died.
Don't confuse with
- National Disaster Response Force (NDRF): a force of trained rescuers who act during and after a disaster. NCRMP builds warning systems and buildings before a cyclone arrives.