01182nam a22001337a 4500 533887 533887 260713b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Aswal, Dinesh Kumar 61614 Recasting disaster governance: The disaster management (amendment) act, 2025 Economic & Political Weekly 61(25), Jun 20, 2026: p.13-15 India’s disaster profile has undergone a significant transformation in the past decade due to the intensifying climate extremes, fragile Himalayan systems, rapid urbanisation, and emerging techno-industrial risks. The Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 seeks to address this changing risk landscape by strengthening institutional mechanisms, decentralised response systems, and disaster data infrastructures. This article examines the act’s key provisions and argues that it marks a shift from relief-centric approaches towards anticipatory, science-based, and development-oriented disaster governance aimed at enhancing India’s long-term resilience.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/25/commentary/recasting-disaster-governance.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 409072 IIPA IIPA 2026-07-13 61(25), Jun 20, 2026: p.13-15 AR139346 2026-07-13 AR