Bill on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management endorsed

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The meeting of today of Legislature-Parliament has unanimously endorsed the Bill on Disaster Reduction and Management-2074 BS.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Minister for Home Affairs, Janardan Sharma, had presented the proposal seeking the approval of the Bill at the parliament.</p><p>Prior to it, on a clause-wise discussion on the Bill had taken place where CPN-UML's parliamentarian Dr Gangadhar Tuladhar suggested the need for formation of Disaster Risk Management Authority instead of forming Disaster Risk Management Centre.</p><p>CPN(Maoist Center)'s Hitraj Pandey and Sita Nepali univocally pressed for forming the Centre in line with the federal set up of the country.</p><p>Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party's Prem Suwal sought extra clarification regarding the definition of the disaster in the Bill.&nbsp;</p><p>Responding to the queries raised by the parliamentarians, Minister Sharma explained that the Bill was introduced in view of the reducing the disaster risks in the country prone-to natural disasters.</p>