Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur is going to organise International Conference on Humanitarian logistics (ICHl) 2013 on December 2 and 3. Governor Shekhar Dutt along with Ambassador, Embassy of Niger, Ali Illiassou, New Delhi, Additional Secretary (TE), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India Amita Sharma, Ashutosh Bajpai Director — India Operations DHl Express along with other will take part in the conference.
The official here at IIM Raipur informed that the devastation caused by the increasing number of disasters in India, like the Odisha Super-cyclone of 1999, the Bhuj earthquake of 2001, the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, the Kashmir earthquake in 2005, the Kosi floods in 2008, the floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in 2009, the leh cloudburst in 2010, the Sikkim earthquake in 2011, and the recent floods and landslides in Uttarakhand and the Cyclone Phailin in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, has repeatedly alerted for critical imperative strengthening the humanitarian logistics and supply chain management of relief supplies in India.
The ICHl 2013 aims to increase the awareness of critical issues in humanitarian logistics and provide a platform for deliberations, experience sharing and cross-fertilisation of ideas, case studies and best practices, IIM officials informed. The Conference would be attended by over 200 delegates from India and abroad including eminent policy makers, senior administrators, international experts, representatives of the corporate sector, leading thinkers, eminent professors and researchers.
The Conference features six plenary sessions, six technical sessions and four power packed panel discussions. The key personalities who would take part in ICHl include Binoy Acharya Director, Unnati, Ahmedabad, Prof. Devanath Tirupati Director, IIM Bangalore, Prof. Gyongyi Kovacs Director, Humanitarian logistics & Supply Chain Research Institute, Finland Major Gen. (Retd.) J.K. Bansal Member, National Disaster Management Authority, Kuldip Nar Managing Director, Aidmatrix, Prof. Mark Goh National University of Singapore, Singapore and others.