- Ministry
- Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Launch Date
- 16 October 2003.
- The NCDM (1995) was upgraded to the NIDM on October 16, 2003, after the Ministry of Home Affairs took over responsibility for disaster management.
- Since inception and is presently located in the NDCC-II Building. NIDM is building its own full fledged campus at sector-29, Rohini, New Delhi.
- The current Executive Director of the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is Shri Rajendra Ratnoo, IAS.
- It has been mandated to promote capacity building interventions in Disaster Risk Management (DRM).
- The Institute owes its origin in 1995 when a National Centre for Disaster Management (NCDM) was set up within Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) by the Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives.
- Following the transfer the subject of disaster management from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the NCDM was delinked from the IIPA and rechristened as the ‘National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)’ under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- The NIDM acquired a statutory status after the promulgation of Disaster Management Act in 2005.
- The prime mandates of the NIDM under the Act are: training, capacity building, research, documentation and policy advocacy on disaster management.
