State Rural Development Secretary B Nijlingappa said that watershed management was an effective measure to get rid of drought like situation in Jharkhand. Nijlingappa was expressing his views during a three-day workshop over the topic - Disaster Risk Minimization, Conducive Changes in Climatic Adaptations and Integration and streamlining of Development Centric Schemes in Jharkhand.
During the discussion, Nijlingappa said that steep rise in temperature and drop in rainfall has been recorded due to the ongoing climatic changes hence in order to save the environment as well as the ecosystem, proper conservation, management and proper use of land has become essential.
In the workshop, Nijlingappa also discussed over some of the important points of water shed management programme and also informed about various livelihood mission programmes being conducted by the centre.
Agri-met advisor and Professor A Wadood at Birsa Agaricultural University on the other hand, threw light over the incidents of lightening taking place across the state as well as the measures which must to taken to avoid such incidents. Wadood also explained the reasons due to which lightening occurs. He also explained the precautions which must be taken before, after and during lightening.
Special Project Officer at Disaster Management department in Jharkhand Colonel Sanjay Srivastava however, gave information related to the proposal of the merger of disaster risk minimization and adaptations in climatic changes along with the developmental projects being conducted by health, agriculture and Animal Husbandry, water resource, Education, Forest and Environment as well as Building Construction departments.
Ranchi district disaster management officer Manoj Kumar expressed his views over inclusion of disaster risk minimization to education department.
He also commented on the precautions to be taken before starting the construction of a building, how to minimize the dangers of disaster risk by adopting anti-earthquake techniques as well as measures taken to prevent the building from the dangers of lightening, fire and heavy rain fall. He also stressed on including disaster management in school curriculums, making school security policy, reconstruction of age-old buildings and creating an awareness of disaster risk management in schools.