Speaking to The Indian Express, Home Ministry spokesperson Ashok Prasad said: “Various steps were agreed upon and decided to operationalise the south campus in Guntur. Subsequently, sources said, the state government allocated space at the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA) free of cost in July 2017. The Centre is committed towards its Constitutional obligation for setting up the NIDM south campus. “During the discussion, it was also decided to prepare a comprehensive calendar of courses to be conducted on the south campus in Guntur. It was on March 6, 2014, that the Home Ministry’s Centre-state division first wrote to the disaster management authority to set up the NIDM’s south campus.

Source: Indian Express February 04, 2018 22:30 UTC