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P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the PM, at G20 Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction at Cape Town (Express Photo)
Early warning systems to tackle disasters are not technological luxuries but strategic investments in resilience, said PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the first day of the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) at Cape Town, South Africa.
PK Mishra represented India at two high-level events — Solidary and Resilience: Advancing DRR in International Collaboration and Solidarity for Early Warning Systems; and Bridging Technical Innovation and Political Leadership for Scaling DRR investment.
Mishra outlined India’s multi-agency architecture integrating meteorological, hydrological, seismic and oceanographic institutions through an Integrated Alert System, which had already issued over 109 billion alerts.
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India, he said, viewed early warning as a global public good; inclusive, multilingual, and anticipatory. He urged the G20 to strengthen interoperable regional platforms, shared data protocols, and joint capacity-building initiatives under the global Early Warnings for All framework.
Mishra described India’s constitutionally anchored model under the Finance Commission, which ensured a multi-year, rules-based DRR allocations, decentralized funding to the states and local bodies, and evidence-based prioritization through a national Disaster Risk Index.
On the sidelines, Mishra engaged in bilateral meetings with South Africa, Brazil, Australia and Netherlands.
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