In which city was the National Disaster Response Force Academy established in the year 2018 ?

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Correct — A, Nagpur. The National Disaster Response Force Academy was set up at Nagpur, Maharashtra: the Union Government notified its creation in February 2016 and the Academy was established in 2018, functioning from the campus of the National Civil Defence College at Nagpur while its own campus is built. It is the apex training institution for NDRF and State Disaster Response Force personnel, civil defence volunteers and responders from neighbouring countries, running courses in collapsed-structure search and rescue, medical first response, flood and deep-diving rescue, mountain and landslide rescue and CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) emergencies.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Kanpur is an industrial and educational centre — IIT Kanpur, defence and ordnance manufacturing — but it hosts no national disaster-response training academy.  (c) Bharatpur in Rajasthan is known for Keoladeo National Park, a Ramsar wetland and UNESCO World Heritage site. It has no NDRF Academy.  (d) Shimla is the capital of Himachal Pradesh and home to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study; India's disaster-response training apex is not based there.

Concept: The NDRF is a specialist, multi-disciplinary response force raised under the Disaster Management Act, 2005. Its battalions are deputed from the central armed police forces, it works under the general superintendence and direction of the National Disaster Management Authority, and it sits administratively under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Three institutions must be kept apart: the NDMA in New Delhi (policy and guidelines, chaired by the Prime Minister), the National Institute of Disaster Management in New Delhi (research, documentation and capacity building) and the NDRF Academy at Nagpur (hands-on responder training).

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