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Representatives of 11 countries volition enactment successful the 2nd method gathering of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Group of BRICS to beryllium hosted by Odisha from June 3-5 successful Puri, a State Minister said.
Odisha was chosen arsenic the big State owed to its "globally recognised milestones successful catastrophe preparedness, effectual cyclone management, and aboriginal informing systems", Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said connected Monday (June 1, 2026).
Mr. Pujari said representatives from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Iran, and Indonesia volition be the lawsuit successful Puri.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi volition beryllium contiguous astatine the inaugural lawsuit connected June 4, helium said.
India had chaired the archetypal method gathering of the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group, held virtually connected April 29-30, bringing unneurotic subordinate countries to beforehand a shared docket connected catastrophe resilience.
"The archetypal in-person method gathering of the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Working Group nether India's BRICS Presidency is scheduled from June 3 to June 5, 2026, successful Puri," Mr. Pujari said.
He said delegates, policymakers, and catastrophe absorption experts from BRICS subordinate and spouse nations volition participate.
The deliberations volition absorption connected sustainable DRR financing, resilient infrastructure, anticipatory response, and integrating accepted cognition into catastrophe resilience strategies, the Minister added.
