NEW DELHI: Gujarat’s disaster management law should be emulated nationally as it was superior to the Central Disaster Management Act, 2005, a task force appointed by the Home Ministry has said in a recent report. BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and his party may use the report to portray him as an effective administrator.The Task Force of five bureaucrats castigated the Central Act, saying some of its provisions created implementation problems.“Not surprisingly, much of what the Act mandates is yet to be realized,” it said, pointing out that the National Disaster Management Authority with nine full-time members was unwieldy and recommended scrapping of the National Executive Committee which hardly met since 2005.“NDMA’s structure is not conducive for carrying out tasks it has been mandated to perform under the Act. NEC , which was assigned crucial and multifarious activities under the Act, has failed to deliver. Even central ministries, including the Home Ministry, have not been able to fulfill the mandate given to them by the Act,” the report has said. The task force which prepared the report was headed by retired IAS officer from the Gujarat cadre, PK Mishra.Mishra had retired as Union Agriculture Secretary in 2008, and headed the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission till this August. The report says the definition of disaster in it is far wider than in the Central act. “...Sections 28 to 31 of the Gujarat Act are worth emulating...,” the report says. It adds that the specific roles of a District Collector and other functionaries should be clearly articulated in the Central Act.