{"id":221177,"date":"2023-07-26T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=221177"},"modified":"2023-07-26T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:40:20","slug":"scheme-for-expansion-modernisation-of-fire-services-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/scheme-for-expansion-modernisation-of-fire-services-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheme for expansion, modernisation of fire services launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>State govts responsible for safety of life and property: Min<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 25 Jul:<\/strong> The central government has launched a scheme for expansion and modernisation of fire services in the states from the earmarked allocation of &#8216;preparedness and capacity-building funding window&#8217; under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for strengthening fire services in the states for the period upto 2025-&#8217;26, with a total outlay of Rs 5,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Funds are available to the states under the scheme on cost sharing basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The identified activities have been broadly categorised under expansion of fire services and modernisation of fire services in the states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The measures included in the scheme provide for, inter alia, setting up of new fire stations; strengthening the state training centres and capacity building; provisions for modern firefighting equipment; strengthening of state headquarters and urban fire stations; technological upgradation and installation; and augmentation of online system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was stated by MoS for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, an amount of Rs 500 crore out of the total outlay is available to incentivise the states for adoption of legal and infrastructure-based reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Fire service is a state subject and has been included as a municipal function in the 12th schedule of the Constitution of India under Article 243 (W). The central government does not maintain any data related to fire accidents\/incidents in states centrally,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is the primary responsibility of the state governments to take necessary steps required for safety of life and property from fire hazards in the areas of their jurisdictions,&#8221; he said. (PIB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State govts responsible for safety of life and property: Min NEW DELHI, 25 Jul: The central government has launched a scheme for expansion and modernisation of fire services in the states from the earmarked allocation of &#8216;preparedness and capacity-building funding window&#8217; under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for strengthening fire services in the states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-221177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}