India, Aug. 29 -- India's disaster risk reduction strategy should be focused on being people centric and based on inputs from community interaction, Rajendra Singh, head of department, National Disaster Management Authority said on Thursday.

He stressed that every infrastructure project in the country should be people centric and not expose people to disasters, said Singh, who is also the former director general, Indian Coast Guard.

Singh made the remarks while speaking at a session on "Disaster Risk Reduction" organised by Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF), a think tank, as floods battered many hill states, including Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand.

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