National Migrant Information System

National Migrant Information System

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has developed an online Dashboard - National Migrant Information System (NMIS), in order to capture the information regarding movement of migrants and facilitate the smooth movement of stranded persons across States.

Key Points

The online portal would maintain a central repository on migrant workers and help in speedy inter-State communication/co-ordination to facilitate their smooth movement to native places.

States will be able to visualize how many people are going out from where and how many are reaching destination States.

The online portal (NMIS) would maintain a central repository of migrant workers and help in speedy inter-state communication to facilitate the smooth movement of migrant workers to their native places.

It has additional advantages like contact tracing, which may be useful in overall Covid-19 response work.

National Disaster Management Authority

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was established by an Act of Parliament. The NDMA is constituted to oversee policy formulation, disaster mitigation and prevention, crisis management, relief, and rehabilitation measures for major natural disasters and manmade disasters in the country.

It was constituted in accordance with the Disaster Management Act, 2005 with the Prime Minister as its Chairperson and nine other members, and one such member to be designated as Vice-Chairperson.

Its primary purpose is to coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response.

The vision of the authority is to build a safer and disaster resilient India by a holistic, proactive, technology driven and sustainable development strategy that involves all stakeholders and fosters a culture of prevention, preparedness and mitigation.