New Delhi, Aug 28 (UNI) The second meeting of the Joint Russian-Indian Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management was held in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai is leading the Indian delegation.
During the first day of the visit, the working plan of the Joint Russian- Indian Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management for 2025-2026 was signed by Rai and Kurenkov Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia).
Both the countries agreed to implement this plan during 2025-2026 and also decided to continue exchange of the best practices and lesson learnt in the field of disaster management.
This meeting is significant to draw a strategy for executing the previous agreements between India and Russia, such as, Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for cooperation in the field of emergency management in December, 2010 and regulation to establish the Indo-Russian Joint Commission for Cooperation (2013) in prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations.
The first meeting was held in New Delhi in 2016.
Based on the results of the meeting, the Indian and Russian delegations expressed their intentions to intensify joint efforts to develop further cooperation in the field of emergency management.
Both countries also agreed to exchange best practices in emergency management, including disaster monitoring and forecasting, training of rescue specialists and firefighters and to extend cooperation between the eminent educational and research institutions, training of specialists in the field of emergency management in both the countries.
Moreover, they also agreed to conduct the next meeting of the Indo-Russian Joint Commission on the Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management in India in 2026.
This working plan will give added impetus to the bilateral efforts and pave the way for up-gradation, mutual assistance in enhancing early warning systems and capacity building of both the countries in emergency preparedness, prevention, response and planning.
Nityanand Rai expressed India’s commitment towards the Sendai Framework for substantial reduction of disaster risks in the country.
