Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication will extend its support to Home Guards in technical upgradation and capacity building.
The university will be producing short films to facilitate this step of Home Guards and also help in editing and publication of its monthly magazine. Along with this, the university will also take part in its publicity.
The University and Home Guard administrations signed an 'Institutional Cooperation Consent' in a simple ceremony on Wednesday.
Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Brij Kishore Kuthiala and Director General (Home Guard) and Civil Defence Maithali Sharan Gupt signed the consent letter.
Addressing the programe, Gupt said that trained volunteers play important role in rescue and relief operations. Volunteers are divided into eight categories to facilitate properly the activities of disaster management and civil defence.
One of the important the categories of volunteers is people having understanding of media and they will play a crucial role in dissemination of information.
The university will produce short films to train all eight categories of volunteers.
In the future, the network of civil defence will be reaching at panchayat level and the university will support the awareness campaign in this regard.
Vice-chancellor Prof Kuthiala said it is responsibility of the administration to inculcate the feeling of security at all the levels to common public. The Home Guard is doing the same and now, the university will further help in strengthening the feeling of security by using communication techniques. It is the need of the hour to have feeling of civil defence.
Prof Kuthiala said, the country's morale raised after an army jawan was rescued from siachin glacier.
"The civil defence will further expand and the university will play its role in making this attempt effective," he said.
IPS officer Rajendra Mishra, Rector lajpat Ahuja, registrar Sachidanand Joshi, HoDs, teachers, non-teaching staff and students were present on the occasion. Director (Production) Ashish Joshi conducted the proceedings and proposed the vote of thanks.