This Act, consisting of 60 sections divided into five Chapters, establishes the activities to To fulfill the objectives of this Act, there would be a council named National Disaster Management Council. The responsibility of the Council, are: Provide strategic guidelines concerned to policies and plans about disaster management; Review method of existing disaster risk reduction and emergency response programmes; Evaluation of disaster preparedness programmes and provide strategic consultancy to concern authority, committee and persons for development of post disaster response and rescue operations; Provide necessary directives or consultation to concern authority and persons to arrange seminars, workshops etc. to increase awareness about related issues. The Act is divided as follows: Preamble (Chap. I); Organizational Structure of Disaster Management (Chap. II); Disaster zone declaration, participation of different forces, etc. (Chap. III); Disaster Management Fund, Relief vault, etc. (Chap. IV); Offense, punishment, etc. (Chap. V); Miscellaneous (Chap. VI).
孟加拉国 · 2012-09-24