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00:00Today, the Himachal Pradesh government has signed a loan agreement with the French Development
00:06Agency for the Himachal Pradesh Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness Project, HPDRRP.
00:15In the presence of the Chief Secretary, our Project Director Nishant Thakur from the Himachal
00:35Pradesh Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness Project, and the Portfolio Manager, Anshula
00:49Menon from the Himachal Pradesh Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness Project, the loan
00:54agreement is of 100 million Euros, which in Indian terms is around 900 crores.
01:04The loan agreement that we have signed will be of 5 years.
01:14The three main themes are institutional strengthening and policy framework, the capacity of HPSDMA
01:27has to be enhanced, the emergency operations center in 12 districts plus the state headquarters
01:36has to be strengthened, the vulnerability of climate change has to be assessed, the
01:48Himalayan Center for Disaster Risk Reduction has to be set up, the IEC has to be set up
01:56and a gender-inclusive resilience strategy has to be developed.