Disaster institutions, planning and finance
Whole chapter · 9–14 focused hours
Disaster institutions, planning and finance
First systematic UPSC preparation after studying the physical causes of hazards in Geography; no professional emergency-response training assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions
- Full mock papers
- Professional rescue, medical or engineering certification
- Repeated study of hazard formation already assigned in Geography
- Memorising obsolete agency names or funding allocations from the 2019 plan
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Statutory institutions
- Revised institutional responsibilities
- Financing and risk transfer
- Global risk governance
Whole chapter reading
- Disaster Management Act, 2005 (original) ↗
Sections 3, 8, 14, 20, 25, 42–45; apply 2025 amendments to duties and composition where relevant
- Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 ↗
Sections 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 24 and 26; new principal-Act sections 8A, 8B, 41A and 44A
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 5.5, 11.2–11.4 and 11.8; distinguish fund purposes, excluding dated allocation rules
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 3.2 and 3.5
- Commencement notification for Disaster Management Amendment Act, 2025 ↗
S.O. 1648(E), 8 April 2025: commencement on 9 April 2025
· Supplementary