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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am thankful to the Core Group Members for their untiring efforts in helping the NDMA in the formulation of the National Guidelines on Chemical Disaster Management. I would like to place on record the significant contribution made by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi and National Safety Council, Mumbai for helping in designing the format of the document and providing lots of technical inputs from time-to-time. The Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal also deserves special recognition for providing inputs related to On-Site and Off-Site emergency plans. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the representatives of the other central ministries and departments concerned, regulatory agencies, R&D organisations, professionals from scientific and technical institutes/academics, technocrats from leading national institutions and apex industrial associations/consortiums of the corporate sectors for the valuable inputs that helped us in improving the content and presentation of the document. The efforts of Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Scientist ‘F’ and Additional Director, Defence Research Laboratory, Tezpur, Assam, and Dr. Raman Chawla, Senior Research Officer, NDMA, in providing knowledge-based technical inputs to the core group, are highly appreciated. Thanks are also due to Mr. Rubaab Sood and the secretarial staff of the NDMA including Mr. Deepak Sharma and Mr. D.K. Ray for their dedicated work during the convening of various workshops, meeting and preparation