The Disaster Management Act, 2005

Disaster Management Act, 2005

This 2025 edition of The Disaster Management Act, 2005 (Act 53 of 2005) reproduces the statute verbatim and folds in the brand-new Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 (18 of 2025, dt. 28-3-2025, w.e.f. S.O. 1425 E, 4-4-2025), which strengthens State‐level emergency funds and grants statutory force to digital-incident reporting and GIS-based early-warning systems.

The volume also binds in the complete, updated texts of:

• Disaster Management (National Institute of Disaster Management) Rules, 2006

• Disaster Management (Annual Report of National Authority) Rules, 2008

• Disaster Management National Executive Committee (Procedure & Allowances) Rules, 2006

• Disaster Management (Terms of Office & Conditions of Service of Members of the National Authority and Payment of Allowances to Members of Advisory Committees) Rules, 2006

• Disaster Management (Notice of Alleged Offence) Rules, 2007

• NDMA (Financial & Other) Authority Recruitment Rules, 2015

• Disaster Management (NIDM) Rules, 2008 and NIDM Recruitment & Service-Conditions Rules, 2014

• National Institute of Disaster Management Regulations, 2018

• The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 as amended by the Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Act, 2020 (34 of 2020)

Concise short comments follow pivotal sections—flagging the 2025 digital-dashboard mandate, revised SDR-fund utilisation norms, penalty enhancements for false alarms, and the Health-Emergency coordination clause—while preserving full Bare-Act integrity for examinations and authoritative citation.

Core statutory coverage

• National, State & District Authorities—composition, powers, and disaster-risk-reduction planning cycles.

• National & State Disaster Response / Mitigation Funds—2025 amendment introduces direct-benefit-transfer interface and climate-adaptation window.

• Incident command & coordination—standard operating procedures, inter-state assistance, and armed-forces deployment guidelines.

• Private-sector & critical-infrastructure duties—mandatory safety audits, business-continuity plans, and liability for non-compliance.

• Offences & penalties—enhanced fines and imprisonment for obstruction, hoarding of relief supplies, or social-media misinformation.

• Epidemic-response linkage—integration with Epidemic Diseases Act powers for quarantine, contact-tracing and vaccination drives.

This edition is particularly suited for

• District collectors, SDRF officers & emergency-operations-centre staff implementing the latest digital-reporting mandates.

• Urban planners, climate-resilience consultants & NGOs drafting mitigation projects eligible for the new Adaptation Fund window.

• Police, NDRF battalions & armed-forces liaison units referencing deployment, requisition and immunity provisions.

• Hospitals, public-health authorities & CSR teams coordinating epidemic response under the combined Disaster-Epidemic framework.

• AIBE candidates and law students studying disaster-management, public-administration and environmental-law modules.

Exact Gazette text · pinpoint explanatory notes · zero superfluous commentary—your quickest route to clarity, authenticity and practical insight on India’s disaster-management regime.