Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Nov 25: A meeting on National Seismic Risk Mitigation Program was held under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary & Project Director, NCRMP, NDMA, Dr. Pradeep Kumar here today.
Div Com Ladakh Saugat Biswas, IGP Ladakh S.S. Khandare, S.S.P Leh Sargun Shukla, Director ULB &ADDC Moses Kunzang, heads of PWD, PDD, BSNL, HIMANK, Project Vijayak, Health Department, SDRF, Fire Office and team of consultants from DDF-AKDNJV headed by Prof. Amitaba Ghosh were present in the meeting. Concerned officers from Kargil district also attended the meeting through video conferencing.
Addressing the meeting, Dr. Pradeep Kumar said that after recent declaration of Ladakh as a Union Territory there is tremendous scope of work in different fields and also a need to incorporate project likes design of National Seismic Risk Mitigation Program at the beginning of planning stage for this region. He stressed upon the concerned officers to meet the set time frame in effective implementation of the project. He urged the UT Administration to take steps for having a state of art Emergency Operation Centre and a multi-hazard warning system for natural disasters like earthquake, flashflood, avalanche, snow blizzard, landslide, windstorm and glacier lake outburst.
Dr. Kumar suggested on having wide consultation and brain storming activities with the concerned stakeholders to produce an exhaustive data collection and formulation of project planning. He urged the concerned officers to provide an exhaustive list of critical buildings and infrastructure as required by the consultants by the set deadline of December 5 and other details that needs to be included in the project for Ladakh. He informed that NSRMP is being implemented by a joint venture between DDF Consultant Private Limited and Agha Khan Agency for Habitat India in 8 State of India including union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
Prof. Ghosh gave a detailed power point presentation on design of National Seismic Risk Mitigation Program. He highlighted the project’s working modality, objectives, retrofitting facility and the kind of support that would be needed from the UT Administration of Ladakh.
Saugat Biswas expressed thanks to Dr. Pradeep and the team for getting the NSRMP in Ladakh at the right time. He gave full assurance to provide the required data and information from concern offices within the given tine line and other support in setting up of infrastructure.
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