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National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) on Tuesday orgsed a one-day webinar 'Thunderstorms and Lightning' in collaboration with India Meteorological Department (IMD).The webinar focussed on enhancing human capacity in terms of better understanding about thunderstorms and lightning risks and effective collaborative actions, by implementing Prime Minister's 10-point agenda and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, for reducing the risk and enhancing the resilience amongst the affected stakeholders.Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai presided over the inaugural session of the webinar "Thunderstorms and Lightning".The aim of the webinar was to sensitize the participants about Hazard Vulnerability Risk Capacity Assessment (HVRC), forecast, preparedness and mitigation of thunderstorms and lightning beside technical knowledge and available resources for timely response and recovery.While addressing the webinar, Nityanand Rai highlighted the major interventions carried out by the Government of India's departments/agencies for reducing the adverse risks of thunderstorms and lightning on the communities.Highlighting the importance of disaster mitigation and reduction measures in the growth and development of the nation, he emphasised focusing on the collaborative short and long term mitigation and reduction measures to diminish the adverse impact of this natural disaster.The minister highlighted the continuous support, guidance and keen interest of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the subject of disaster risk reduction. Further, he exhorted implementing 10 Point Agenda given by the Prime Minister on Disaster Risk Reduction besides adopting research based disaster risk reduction strategies, participatory approach and proactive preventive and mitigative strategies.Dr. Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Science provided insights on the interventions taken by his ministry for thunderstorms and lightning, including mobile app Damini, weather modelling, doppler weather radar and lightning detector system.Further, he emphasised to shift the approach from forecast to nowcast and prepare appropriate strategies to disseminate the early warning of thunderstorms and lightning to the concerned stakeholders.( With inputs from ANI )

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