The 42th annual civil defence camp of South East Central Railway (SECR) was concluded in the chief presence of SECR General Manager, Naveen Tandon here at Central School on Thursday.
Additional Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM), Vivek Khare along with all the departmental heads, officials from Raipur division, the school principal, Prabha Minj and students marked their presence. Khare welcomed Tandon by offering him a bouquet. later, Tandon inspected a parade launched by the volunteers and instructors and took salute at the march past.
As many as 94 volunteers and instructors from SECR Raipur, Bilaspur and Nagpur division performed a Mock Drill to rescue people from a multi-storey building, providing preliminary treatment to the injured and showing different techniques to extinguish fire, if breaks out.
In his address, Tandon shed light on civil defence organisation and stressed on its need in organisations like railway. He congratulated the volunteers and instructors for putting up a good show and also urged the students to learn techniques shown by the experts to deal with any emergency, if report.
On the occasion, SECR Deputy General Manager, Rajendra Kumar Agrawal informed the gathering that SECR civil defense team has 328 volunteers, who are able to deal with any emergency.
The civic defense organisation of SECR runs 25 different kinds of disaster management programmes at its training centre. Tandon inaugurated an exhibition, which showcased precautions and safety measures useful in emergencies like earthquake, bomb explosion, flood etc.
The chief guest also felicitated winners of different competitions during camp and some volunteers for showing excellent performance. While S Koteswar Rao (Bhilai) was awarded as Best Volunteer, Kamal Kanth (Bilaspur) was felicitated as Best Rescuer. Shyam Kumar (Nagpur) was selected as Best Team Rescuer and Amrawati Waghmare was given title of Best Woman Volunteer.
The camp concluded with Khare giving a memento to Tandon and SECR senior divisional safety officer, Raipur, Anup Kumar Satpathi delivering vote of thanks. Earlier, Tandon inspected an under construction high power locomotive diesel shed, where the chief mechanical engineer, RS Kochak and other officials concerned explained him the project’s progress through the map.