SAADMEx 2015 to be conducted from 23rd -26th November, 2015 in Delhi




India will host the South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMEx), 2015 here from November 23-26. Member-countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will participate in the joint exercise, which will be inaugurated by Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Objective of the Joint excercise:- 
  • The focus of the exercise would be to test the inter-governmental coordination, create synergy and synchronise efforts to institutionalise regional cooperation on disaster response among the member-countries of SAARC region.
  • This will be the first joint exercise to be conducted by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) of India.
  • Through the exercise, the important aspects of responding to disasters by pooling of resources/expertise will be addressed and also the imperative of presenting a well coordinated response within the SAARC region will be emphasised.
In the run-up to the exercise, the NDRF held an Advance Coordination Conference during the first week of September, 2015 which was attended by delegates from all member-countries of SAARC and officials of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), other stakeholders and representatives of NDRF.
SAARC Countries:- 
SAARC brings together India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Afghanistan.
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