<h1>Disaster management authority launches SAMARTH-2025 month-long campaign October 1-31 to promote preparedness, safe construction and community resilience</h1> A state disaster management authority will run SAMARTH-2025, a month-long disaster awareness campaign from October 1-31 to promote preparedness, safe construction and community resilience. Launched in 2011 to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (observed October 13), the campaign adopts the 2025 theme 'Fund Resilience, Not Disasters' and includes a state-level event on October 13 with a five-day exhibition of preparedness and response equipment. Activities across districts will include multimedia awareness drives, street plays, IEC dissemination, school and college competitions, mock drills, workshops on resilient urban planning, and community engagement via Panchayati Raj bodies and trained volunteers.