Which of the following statements with reference to National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is/are correct? 1. It was constituted in the year 2006. 2. Under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the Institute has been entrusted to assist in national level policy formulation with reference to Disaster Management. Select the answer using the code given below:

Correct — B, 2 only. The second statement is straightforwardly the Institute's statutory job. The Disaster Management Act, 2005 sets up three bodies — the National Disaster Management Authority to make policy, the National Disaster Response Force to respond, and the National Institute of Disaster Management to build capacity — and NIDM's remit under the Act covers training, research, documentation and assistance with national-level policy formulation. The first statement fails on its date. NIDM was not created from nothing in 2006: it began life in 1995 as the National Centre for Disaster Management within the Indian Institute of Public Administration, was redesignated the National Institute of Disaster Management in 2003, and was placed on a statutory footing by the 2005 Act. Whichever of those three dates a source prefers, none of them is 2006, so statement 1 is wrong and only statement 2 stands.

• (a)1 only — Inverts the item. The date is the false half and the mandate is the true one.
• (c)Both 1 and 2 — The tempting choice, because 2006 sits plausibly close to the 2005 Act and one might assume the Institute was constituted the year after it. The Institute predates the Act by a decade in its earlier form.
• (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Rejects the mandate as well, which is wrong — assisting in national-level policy formulation is exactly what the Act entrusts to NIDM.

The Disaster Management Act, 2005 replaced a relief-centred approach with a preparedness-centred one and built a three-tier institutional structure. At the national level the NDMA lays down policies and plans under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, the NDRF is the specialist response force, and NIDM is the capacity-building and training arm. Parallel authorities exist at state and district level.

The lineage matters because it is what the date in statement 1 tests. Disaster management in India was a relief subject handled by the Agriculture Ministry until the early 2000s; the National Centre for Disaster Management was set up in 1995 inside the Indian Institute of Public Administration in Delhi to train officials. The Odisha super cyclone of 1999, the Bhuj earthquake of 2001 and the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 each pushed the subject up the agenda, the Centre was upgraded to an Institute in 2003, the subject moved to the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the 2005 Act followed. So an answer built on 'the Act is 2005, therefore the Institute is 2006' reverses the actual sequence.

• The Disaster Management Act, 2005 created the NDMA, the NDRF and NIDM.
• NIDM's ancestor, the National Centre for Disaster Management, was set up in 1995 at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
• The Centre was redesignated the National Institute of Disaster Management in 2003, before the Act.
• NIDM's mandate is human resource development, capacity building, training, research, documentation and policy advocacy in disaster management.
• The NDMA is chaired by the Prime Minister; state authorities are chaired by Chief Ministers and district authorities by District Collectors.

• Assuming every body named in an Act was created by that Act. NIDM existed, under two earlier names, for a decade before 2005.
• Confusing NIDM with NDMA. NIDM trains and researches; NDMA makes policy and is chaired by the Prime Minister.
• Confusing NDRF with the NDRF fund. One is the response force, the other the National Disaster Response Fund.

As a two-statement item pairing a plausible-but-wrong date with a correct mandate, which is the standard shape for institution questions. Also as match-the-list across NDMA, NDRF, NIDM and their functions.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the National Disaster Management Authority is chaired by:

  • (a)The Home Minister
  • (b)The Prime Minister
  • (c)The Cabinet Secretary
  • (d)The Vice-President

  Answer(b) The Prime Minister — state authorities are chaired by Chief Ministers and district authorities by District Collectors.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The National Institute of Disaster Management is primarily entrusted with which one of the following?

  • (a)Deploying specialist response battalions
  • (b)Capacity building, training and research
  • (c)Disbursing the National Disaster Response Fund
  • (d)Issuing cyclone warnings

  Answer(b) Capacity building, training and research — response is the NDRF's role and warnings are the IMD's.