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National Disaster Management Council

parliamentary_committee · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
Tarique Rahman
Role
Chairman (Prime Minister, ex officio)
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
2012
Legal basis
Disaster Management Act 2012 (Act No. 34 of 2012), Section 5; Standing Orders on Disaster (SOD) 2019 operationalise the Council's directives at district, upazila, and union levels. The Act grants the Council authority to co-opt additional members and directs that if no minister is assigned to a designated ministry, the Minister of State or Deputy Minister of that ministry serves as member.

NDMC's operative posture as of May 2026 is concurrent multi-hazard response: managing the April-May northeastern haor flash flood (46,730 ha of boro paddy submerged across 7 districts, ~3 million people at risk, Tk 7,500/month three-month farmer relief announced May 3) while activating pre-monsoon cyclone preparedness through CPP's 76,020-volunteer coastal network. PM Tarique Rahman (NDMC chairperson) issued direct relief directives on May 7, 2026. Climate risk mainstreaming across Agriculture, Water Resources, Food, and Environment ministries -- the multi-ministry coordination function central to NDMC's mandate under the Disaster Management Act 2012 -- is the operative mode ahead of the June-October monsoon season.

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Provenance & notes

The National Disaster Management Council (NDMC) is the apex body for disaster management in Bangladesh, established by Section 5 of the Disaster Management Act 2012 (Act No. 34 of 2012). The chairperson is the Prime Minister ex officio; member designations confirmed across multiple sources include: ministers for Finance, Planning, Home Affairs, Defence, Water Resources, Local Government and Rural Development, Communications, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, and Disaster Management and Relief. The Act allows the Government to increase or decrease membership and permits co-option of additional persons. The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) serves as the NDMC secretariat; the Department of Disaster Management (DDM) is the primary implementing body. The Inter-Ministerial Disaster Management Coordination Committee (IMDMCC) is the subordinate inter-ministerial coordination body. The NDMC does not sit as a parliamentary committee in the legislative sense, but 'parliamentary_committee' is used per schema instruction as the closest available category for a high-level inter-ministerial advisory and policy body. The current_head field reflects PM Tarique Rahman as NDMC chairperson, not a dedicated NDMC head; the council has no separate head. website is set to modmr.gov.bd as the NDMC secretariat's primary portal. The DDM portal (ddm.portal.gov.bd) hosts the official NDMC composition document. established_year is 2012 (statutory creation under DMA 2012); predecessor informal arrangements predate this. annual_budget_bdt and fy_budget_year are null: no separate budget line exists for NDMC; it is funded through MoDMR's envelope. The ministry JSON (ministry-of-disaster-management-and-relief.json) currently lists M. Iqbal Hossain as head under head_role 'State Minister'; note that Asadul Habib Dulu is the full Minister (Lalmonirhat-3, BNP, appointed 17 February 2026) and M. Iqbal Hossain is the State Minister (Mymensingh-3, BNP, appointed 17 February 2026) -- this distinction does not affect the NDMC JSON but is noted for cross-reference. All 8 notable_events are sourced from 2+ independent primary sources or from official government/UN/BDRCS documents.

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