India has emerged as a regional power and net security provider in the Indo-Pacific as its capacity to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to its citizens as well as regional partners has grown in recent years. This was stated by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at the multi-agency Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise Samanvay 2022 in Agra.
The Raksha Mantri highlighted that prediction of natural disasters has to be accompanied by dissemination of information to a larger Population and shifting people to safer locations, which requires an empowered machinery. As nations have different capacities, collaborative preparation to deal with disasters is required, he stressed. Shri Rajnath Singh called upon the nations to come together in dealing with natural disasters by sharing Resources, equipment and training. In HADR, there is a need to share information for regional cooperation and best practices