Disaster Management

Jalpaiguri, Sept. 4: A seminar on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) was held by the District Relief Department here today. It was sponsored by the United Nations Development Project (UNDP), bringing together environmental experts, senior administrative officers, functionaries at the panchayat level and school students.
The seminar was aimed at building awareness and ensuring better implementation of disaster management concepts at the micro-level.

Subir Sarkar, a noted environmentalist and head of the weather station at North Bengal University said: `Since, we live in a vulnerable zone where chronic natural disasters are common, we must concentrate on effectively managing the population and property in such areas to control the loss that inhabitants suffer`.

The need to use scientific techniques instead of old ones, and the training of more people on disaster management was also emphasised in the seminar.

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