One of the main objectives of the Disaster Risk Reduction in Greater Mumbai project of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) or Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is to build MCGM’s competency to manage disaster risks. The Project proposes to establish a disaster risk management process that would close the institutional gap in Mumbai City’s competency to manage disaster risk by equipping MCGM with a Disaster Risk Management Master Plan (DRMMP) and an Internal Competent Structure for Emergency and Crisis Management. The development of a DRMMP entails a structured participatory process by which stakeholders can understand their relationship to the various risks envisaged in Mumbai City and their role in the City’s Disaster Risk Management (DRM) agenda.

Further, it would establish the inter-institutional coordination processes and protocols that would align and harmonize the DRM process in MCGM with those of the relevant National, State and other public and private institutions, in particular those that provide critical services (such as but not limited to utilities, health, education and public safety), to ensure adequate communication protocols before, during and after the disaster. The City Profile will serve as reference material for planners, investigators, researchers and policy makers doing actual work in Disaster Risk Management. The profile is a tool for understanding the geographical, environmental, institutional, social and economic setting of Greater Mumbai.