New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Centre, in a notification issued on Monday, designated specific ministries and departments for monitoring, early morning, prevention, mitigation, and preparedness to deal with disasters so there is zero or minimum inconvenience or casualties. The notification, issued by the ministry of home affairs, designated handling of avalanche and oil spills to the ministry of defence; biological disasters to health ministry; floods and glacial lake outburst floods to ministry of jal shakti; urban floods (excluding early warning) to ministry of housing and urban affairs; forest fires, industrial and chemical disasters to the ministry of environment, forests and climate change; landslides to ministry of mines; and nuclear and ...