Bangladesh is the most disaster prone country of the world due to it’s geographical situaion.

Peoples of Bangadesh have need to carry out their lives by surviving against the disaster all over

the year. Emormous damage of live and livelihoods is not new incident for Bangladesh due to

having runious storm and cyclone. In addition we loss our agriculture, health condition,

sanitation, economy, infrastructure, environment due to another disasters including flood,

drought, excess rainfall. Several initiatives have been taken by present government to by

building capacity of root level vulnerable community considering reality of these kind of

disaster. As a part of continuation of action plan, preparation of disaster managememt

programme at upazila level have been started under Comprehensive Disaster Management

Programme (CDMP) of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, GoB.

Main objectives

Main objective of Disaster Management plan is to raise mass awareness on disaster and risk. It

will help to find out realistic approach to mitigate risk at family, community, union Parishad,

Upazila Parishad and Upazila administration level. In addition, It will help to implement shifting,

rescue, demand finalize, relief distribution and rehabilitation plan which are included in local

disaster management plan. This plan will act as a comprehensive plan for disaster management

committee and related sectors (GoB, NGOs and INGOs, donors etc) and also give directions to

related sectors to implement their plans.