Which of the following statements with reference to National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is/are correct?
- 1It was constituted in the year 2006.
- 2Under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the Institute has been entrusted to assist in national level policy formulation with reference to Disaster Management. Select the answer using the code given below:
- A1 only
- B2 only
- CBoth 1 and 2
- DNeither 1 nor 2
Explanation
NIDM originated as the National Centre for Disaster Management (constituted under an Act of Parliament in 1995) and was re-designated as the National Institute of Disaster Management by the Disaster Management Act, 2005, which received presidential assent on 9 January 2006 — it was formally notified as a statutory body in 2006, so statement 1 is treated as correct. Under the DM Act, 2005, the Institute is mandated to plan and promote training and research in disaster management and to assist in national-level policy formulation — statement 2 is correct. Both statements are correct, confirmed against published solutions of this paper.