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The Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 created an important enabling provision through Section 41A.
It permits state governments to constitute Urban Disaster Management Authorities in state capitals and cities having municipal corporations, with specified exceptions for Delhi and Chandigarh.
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Paper: GS-2
Theme: Polity & Governance
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These authorities can prepare urban disaster-management plans addressing city-specific vulnerabilities such as flooding and heat waves.
This development marks a conceptual shift.
Urban disasters are no longer treated simply as smaller versions of district-level disasters.
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