A developing country like India, with a variety of building practices and social and economic structure, needs to evolve its own strategies for seismic hazard evaluation. Occurrence of few damaging earthquakes during the last decade has pointed to our shortcoming in risk reduction programmes. A meaningful programme must incorporate appropriate building codes and also create public awareness. Several initiatives are now being taken at research and management levels. An update of these initiatives and steps to strengthen disaster mitigation programmes are discussed in this paper.