Home Minister inaugurates the First BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise

TNPSC Current Affairs - October 2017 by TNPSC Guru

Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the First Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation Disaster Management Exercise (BIMSTEC DMEx-2017)

BIMSTEC DMEx-2017(‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’ ) will be conducted by National Disaster Response force (NDRF) for October 10-13 with the focus on to test the Inter-Governmental Coordination efforts, Creating efforts to establish regional cooperation on disaster response among BIMSTEC nations.

It also share the best practices on  Disaster Risk Reduction , strengthening regional response and coordination for Disaster Management among member countries

About BIMSTEC:

• BIMSTEC is a Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation(BIMSTEC) , is a home 22 % of global population .
• It comprising of 7 countries including Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka from South Asia and Myanmar and Thailand from South East Asia.
• It was established in 1997 ,, headquarters is at Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Chairmanship will be in  rotational basis based on alphabetical order