The Government of India have adopted mitigation and prevention as essential components of their development strategy. The Tenth Five Year Plan document has a detailed chapter on Disaster Management. The plan emphasizes the fact that development cannot be sustainable without mitigation being built into developmental process. Each State is supposed to prepare a plan scheme for disaster mitigation in accordance with the approach outlined in the plan. In brief, mitigation is being institutionalized into developmental planning.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/organisation/national-institute-disaster-management
[2] http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/Mitigation/mitigationhome.html
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/disaster-management
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/disaster-preparedness
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi