The Second Meeting of the Joint Russian-Indian Commission on Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management was held yesterday in Moscow, Russia. Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai is leading the Indian delegation. During the first day of the visit, the working plan of the Joint Russian-Indian Commission on Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management for 2025-2026 was signed by Mr. Rai and Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Kurenkov Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich.

Both countries agreed to implement this plan during 2025-2026 and also decided to continue the exchange of the best practices and lessons learnt in the field of disaster  management. This meeting is significant to draw a strategy for executing the previous agreements between India and Russia, such as the Inter-Governmental Agreement for cooperation in the field of emergency management in December 2010 and the Regulation to establish the Indo-Russian Joint Commission for Cooperation in 2013 in prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations. The first meeting of the Indo-Russian Joint Commission on Cooperation in the Field of Emergency Management was held in New Delhi in 2016.