India, Oct. 14 -- On the first day of the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Dr PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, represented India at two high-level events; "Solidarity and Resilience: Advancing DRR in International Collaboration and Solidarity for Early Warning Systems" and "Bridging Technical Innovation and Political Leadership for Scaling DRR Investment." At the session on Solidarity and Resilience, Dr Mishra emphasised that early warning systems were not technological luxuries but strategic investments in resilience, according to a Press release.
He outlined India's multi-agency architecture integrating meteorological, hydrological, seismic and oceanographic institutions through a Common Alert Pr...