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| Two-day workshop on Disaster Management concludes at Women’s College, M.A Road | |
Srinagar,July 23 (Scoop News)-Two-day training workshop for girl student volunteers organized by Civil Defense Srinagar in collaboration with JTFRP (Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project) funded by World Bank concluded at Women’s Degree College. M. A road Srinagar here today.
The workshop was organized with an objective of imparting the training to 128 girl student volunteers of the Women’s College, in the areas of relief and rescue, in case of natural disasters like earthquakes and floods. The trained instructors from the Civil Defense imparted training to the volunteers on first aid, rescue efforts which included training on CPR (cardiac pulmonary resuscitation) knots, hitches, loops during rescue operations as well as on fire extinguishing methods in case of accidental fires.
Nighat Aman, Deputy Controller, Civil Defence Srinagar in her inaugural address stressed on the need for collaborative efforts in order to face the challenge of natural disasters.
Jehangir Hashmi, Additional CEO, JKERA congratulated Civil Defence, Srinagar for organizing the 2- day training programme and said that holding of such training programmes in the state is vital to improve the level of preparedness to meet the challenge of natural disasters in the state of J&K which is very vulnerable to natural disasters. He also highlighted the significance of the traditional architecture of Kashmir like Daji Diwari in prevention of loss of lives during natural calamities like earthquakes.
The training programme was conducted as part of strengthening of disaster management capacity of the World Bank funded JTFRP (Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project) .Under the component Rs 20 crores have been kept for providing of trainings/equipments to the first responders i.e. volunteers at community level who can play a crucial role in rescue and relief efforts immediately after the occurrence of natural disasters.
Dr.Yasmin Ashai, Principal Women’s College thanked Civil Defence and JTFRP for organizing the workshop for girl students of the college.
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