Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the government has brought about a change in its approach to disaster management from a relief-centric to a holistic and integrated coverage of the entire matter. He said the new approach includes prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation of both man-made and natural disasters. <br/><br/>The Home Minister was addressing members of the Consultative Committee of Parliament attached to his ministry in New Delhi yesterday. Mr Singh said this approach is based on the conviction that development cannot be sustainable unless disaster mitigation is built in the development process.<br/><br/>He told the MPs that the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) has been entrusted with the responsibility for human resource development, capacity-building including training and education, research, documentation and policy planning in the field of disaster management.<br/><br/>The Home Minister said international cooperation in the field of disaster management preparedness is also being enhanced.<br/><br/>The Home Ministry is organising a meeting of Ministers for Disaster Management of BRICS countries on August 22-23 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, to develop closer cooperation amongst these countries.<br/><br/>Besides Mr Singh, Ministers of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary and Kiren Rijiju and Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi were present at the meeting.