National Disaster Management Authority, NDMA, on Wednesday asked all the six states having nuclear installations to prepare plans for development of emergency planning zone in 16-km radius around these plants. After meeting Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury at the NDMA headquarters, vice president of the authority M Shashidhar Reddy said it has asked all the state government having nuclear installation to come up with a development plan covering all the villages and habitations falling under the Emergency Planning Zone. A statement from NDMA said that Mr. Yechury had gone to meet Mr. Reddy to discuss the issue for development of infrastructure in and around Kaiga nuclear plant in Karnataka. The authority had carried out mock exercises last year to look at the off-site Nuclear emergency plans as part of its initiatives of enhanced preparedness in the country in the wake of the Fukushima experience at the end.