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| DDC calls for holding large scale mock drills |
UDHAMPUR, OCTOBER-07:- District
administration Udhampur has planned to hold series of activities to mark
International day of Disaster observed to promote a global culture of
risk-awareness and disaster reduction. To chalk out the modalities, District
Development Commissioner, Ravinder Kumar today convened a meeting of District
officers of all the departments here at Conference Hall.
The DDC said that the International day for Disaster Risk Reduction
would be celebrated on October 13, 2017 by conducting disaster risk activities which include disaster
preparedness, awareness programmes for community, schools and colleges and mock
exercises.
He said that such campaign would seek to raise awareness about effective
actions, policies and practices taken to reduce exposure to disaster risk at
the community level to save property and human loss.
He emphasized upon the concerned officers that it is a considerable
challenge which can be accomplished only through coordination, cooperation and
collaboration among many stakeholders. For the purpose, he directed Deputy
Controller Civil Defence to organize awareness programmes to generate maximum
awareness among the general public to minimize the man made or natural
disaster. The concerned officers were also directed to conduct large scale land
slide/ accident mock drill exercise to reduce exposure to disasters to the
rescue team during any rescue operation in the district. Besides,
he impressed upon the Red Cross Secretary to organize first Aid training programme
for the volunteers.
The meeting was attended by Additional District Development
Commissioner, Arvind Sharma, Additional Superintendent of Police, Faisal
Qureshi, Assistant Commissioner, Revenue, Subhash Dogra, Chief Planning
Officer, Ashok Khajuria, Programme Officer, ICDS, Rimpi Ohri, Chief Medical
Officer, K. C Dogra, Deputy Controller Civil Defence, Shamshar Singh, District
Officers and HoDs of various departments.
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