To ensure effective disaster management, the Government of India has assigned specific ministries and departments the responsibility for monitoring, issuing early warnings, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, and capacity building in relation to various types of disasters, reported the PTI.

An official notification said, while avalanche, oil spills will be handled by the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Earth Sciences will provide early warning for the cold wave, cyclone, tornado, earthquake, heat wave, lightning, tsunami, hail storms and heavy rainfall and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will take care biological disasters, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.