An informative mobile exhibition on natural disasters ‘Disaster: Preparing for The Worst’ is being put up at the art gallery of Regional Science Centre, here on Tuesday.
The exhibition that began on Tuesday would continue till July 25. Rakesh Dubey, Director of Institute for Disaster Management, Bhopal inaugurated the exhibition. The exhibition is organised by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM).
The exhibition is all about information on natural disasters and how to get prepare for them. The exhibition shares information on natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunami and also disasters like earthquake, floods and volcanic eruptions. While talking to The Pioneer, Educational Officer of Regional Science Centre, MM Rout said, “The natural disasters have put many lives into danger and so the motive of this exhibition is to make people aware about these disasters and how to be prepared to safeguard lives from these unexpected happenings.”
He further said that other than natural disasters many disasters happen due to human mistakes. He said one of its kind happened in Bhopal in 1983 as Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The exhibition also shares huge information on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Rout also said that some disasters require rescue-efforts and a pre-prepared person or well trained person can undertake the situation at the initial stage. This exhibition tells all required precautions to be taken at the crucial moment, he added.
There are 34 informative panels, four interactive panels and three computer kiosks displaying the information on natural and man-made disasters. Further the spectators could also watch multimedia presentations explaining the tools of communication during the crisis.
Many school students and educationists visited for the exhibition. The students received a lot of information through interactive panels and were mesmerized to watch the presentations. The spectators were surrounded with an interactive scientific world as they walk through the gallery at regional science centre.