Delhi Confidential: Route Change
Batch Of Honour
On Monday, a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) workshop saw two IPS batchmates with vast experience of national security discussing disaster mitigation. Both 1989-batch IPS officers, Safi Ahsan Rizvi is NDMA Adviser (Mitigation), while Vivek Srivastava is posted as Director General, Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards. Rizvi has been overseeing key policy prescriptions of the authority on disaster mitigation and risk reduction since 2023, while Srivastava has been helming key projects on fire safety. Srivastava also has first-hand experience of post-disaster response, as he was posted as SP in Kutch during the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake.
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