Manipur State Disaster Management Authority

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is implementing Up-scaling of Aapda Mitra Scheme in order to improve local capacity in disaster response across India. The Scheme is focused on training of 100000 community volunteers in disaster response in 350 most landslide, cyclone, flood and earthquake prone districts of all States/UTs of India. 

The Up-scaling of Aapda Mitra Schemes aims to provide the community volunteers with the skills that they would need to respond to their community immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster thereby enabling them to undertake basic relief and rescue tasks during emergency situations.

Manipur State has identified another 8 districts for the up-scaling of the Aapda Mitra Scheme. The details of these districts, along with their population and number of trainers, are as follows:

Sl. No.	Name of the District proposed	Population	No. of Trainer proposed
1	Bishnupur	240363	100
2	Churachandpur	271274	100
3	Chandel	144028	100
4	Imphal East	452661	100
5	Senapati	354972	100
6	Tamenglong	140143	100
7	Ukhrul	183115	100
8	Imphal West	514683	100