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Centre plans disaster management authority
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Dec 30
The Centre plans to enact a law to set up a disaster management authority that can provide immediate assistance in the event of a natural calamity, the Home Minister, Mr Shivraj Patil, said on Thursday.
``Such an authority will spell out what emergency relief and rehabilitation measures should be taken at the State and district levels and how funds should be released,'' he said after chairing a meeting of the Group of Ministers that reviewed relief operations in the tsunami-hit areas.
The Home Minister said special efforts were being made to provide relief and rehabilitation measures in the islands of Nicobar. Asked whether the Government was considering an amendment in the Constitution to deal with natural calamities, Mr Patil said, ``In case the issue has not figured in the Union, State or Concurrent lists of the Constitution, then the Centre has the authority to act. There is no need for an amendment to the Constitution."
He said the Government was despatching an additional battalion of Central paramilitary forces to Nicobar islands, having already sent helicopters and other aircraft there.
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