With an aim to make people aware about how to be prepared to meet challenges of the natural calamities and minimise the damage which is caused by such disasters in a State like Uttarakhand, International Disaster Minimisation Day will be observed in the State on Wednesday.
The State Government has already issued necessary directions to all the district administrations in this regard to organise awareness programmes involving school children and representatives from different walks of life on how to deal with the situation in the aftermath of occurrence of a natural disaster.
In a bid to create awareness among the masses about natural disasters school children including NCC cadets, will take out awareness rallies on how to be prepare to deal with natural disasters on this
occasion.
Apart from organising awareness rallies, different programmes like essay and painting competitions on natural disaster and environment will also be held involving school children, as the officials concerned said.
An awareness rally will be taken out by the students from district headquarter to Chaughanpata in Almora to mark the International Disaster Minimisation Day on Wednesday, said Dr Manju Pande, District Disaster Management Officer, Almora.
At the same time a seminar on natural disasters in Uttarakhand would also be organised at the district headquarter and representatives from different Government departments including revenue, heath, PWD, jal sansthan, youth welfare, police, disaster management, various schools, NGOs to name a few were expected to participate in this seminar, Pande added.
In the meanwhile, students from different schools would take part in painting competitions on environment and natural disaster subject at tehsil level. Besides, students of different schools would also organaise ‘nukkad nataks’ to create awareness about the natural disaster, further said the official concerned, adding the participants would be presented awards on the occasion.