As a disaster response plan, as many as 200 Aapad Mitra volunteers will be selected from Jagatsinghpur district. These honorary workers will be deployed in the most vulnerable areas in case of any disaster.
The Aapada Mitra workers will first respond will create awareness and preparedness among the community people responding to any disaster, informed district Collector Yamini Sarangi launching Aapad Mitra selection process at district headquarters on Thursday.
These volunteers will be selected from Nehure Yuba Kendra, Red Cross, civil defence and NGOs trained in certain skills in disaster management so that they will be able to respond in a prompt manner in rescue and relief operations during disaster. The selected volunteers will be trained at the Central Institute of Civil Defence at Kolkata after concurrence of their selection by OSDMA.