In Andhra Pradesh, the Union Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah participated in the 20th Raising Day Celebrations of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Vijayawada.

On this occasion, the Home Minister also inaugurated the Southern Campus of the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) at Kondapavuluru in Krishna District. He also virtually inaugurated the 10th Battalion campus of NDRF in Vijayawada, the Regional Response Centre of NDRF in Supaul, Bihar, Regional Forensic Science Laboratory building in Tirupati and virtually laid the foundation stone of the Regional Response Centre of NDRF in Gorakhpur.