Promoting insurance at grassroots can help in disaster risk management: DPM Shrestha

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Apr. 24: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha has stressed promoting insurance at the grass roots to manage disaster risk mitigation.

He said so while speaking at a national workshop on 'disaster risk management policies and practices: opportunities and challenges for development resilience'.

The DPM also pointed at the need to mobilise disaster risk fund to disaster mitigation, not only limiting it to relief distribution.

DPM Shrestha urged the local levels to get mobilized on long-term works including identification of open space for the time of disaster and development of necessary infrastructure.

He viewed that there was need of effective implementation and monitoring of the national strategic action plan on disaster risk mitigation. He also pointed at the need to unify works related to preparedness and risk mitigation.

DPM Shrestha held that disaster risk management work could be accomplished effectively only through efficient coordination among all the three tiers of the government and the other stakeholders.