The Government of Orissa is implementing the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) programme in 16 disaster-prone districts in order to reduce the vulnerabilities in two phases from 2002-08 with the support of the Government of India (Ministry of Home Affairs) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This Programme is also implemented in 16 other states. Prior to this, UNDP sponsored Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) programme was implemented in ten blocks of seven coastal districts on pilot basis. The overall goal of the programme is “Sustainable Reduction in Disaster risk in some of the most hazard-prone districts”. The names of the programmed districts are shown in the table given below.

 

Sl. no	Name of District	ULBs Programmed	Blocks Programmed	GPs Programmed	Villages Programmed
1	Angul	3	8	209	1637
2	Balasore	4	12	289	2647
3	Bhadrak	2	7	193	1248
4	Cuttack	3	14	342	1844
5	Ganjam(P)*	13	13	292	1423
6	Jagatsinghpur	2	8	198	1232
7	Jajpur	2	10	280	1572
8	Kendrapara	2	9	230	1405
9	Keonjhar(P)**	4	3	68	496
10	Khordha	4	10	168	1527
11	Koraput	4	14	226	1915
12	Mayurbhanj(P)***	2	11	57	225
13	Nuapada	2	5	109	638
14	Puri	4	11	230	1589
15	Rayagada	3	11	171	2540
16	Sambalpur	4	9	148	1325
	Total	58	155	3210	23263