The Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill is knotty

Prathiksha Ullal, is an Advocate and a graduate of Christ University Bengaluru 2021. She has previously worked as a Law Clerk cum Research Assistant to the office of the Advocate General, Karnataka and as a LAMP fellow of the 2022-23 batch. Her interests primarily lie at the intersection of environmental law and feminist perspectives. She also possesses a keen interest in constitutional law and legislative drafting. Her non-academic interests include travelling, cycling and composing poetry. She is also an avid reader of feminist classics.

Sneha Priya Yanappa is a Senior Project Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, where she currently works on legal and institutional frameworks for urban heat resilience and climate governance. Her current work focuses on identifying legal and institutional solutions to the impacts of extreme heat across sectors including urban governance, public health, labour and education, with the aim of embedding climate resilience into laws and policies. Formerly the Team Lead for Vidhi Karnataka, she has advised the Government of Karnataka on legislative drafting and regulatory reforms across urban governance, climate change, environmental governance, education and rights-based policy. Her work examines how law, governance and institutional reform can make cities more equitable, liveable and sustainable. Her interests span climate change, urban governance, constitutional law, public international law and public policy. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a B.A. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune.