Jadavpur University has collaborated with a community-based scouting group to conduct a week-long certificate course on Disaster Preparedness and Safety from December 14, 2020, to December 19, 2020.
Jadavpur University created the new online and multi-disciplinary course to offer a deeper understanding of natural hazards and disasters, knowledge on disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, as well as recovery.
As per the official reports, the course is designed for policymakers, technocrats, engineers, government officers, government agencies of Town Planning, NGO members, academicians, researchers, and students of colleges and universities, industrial development, architects, administrators, and all other persons working in the relevant fields, including planners for water and transportation resources.
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Additionally, youngsters and members of the scouting fraternity who are 15-year-old or above can also participate in the Disaster Preparedness and Safety course.
Professor Gupinath Bhandari of the Civil Engineering Department, JU, in-charge of the Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management stated, “It will also help in developing skills to use information technology to access current disaster-relevant information for assessing, planning, mitigating, responding to and recovery from local disaster through global levels. It will have knowledge on Community Based Disaster Risk Management and highlight the value and ethics of social work consequences of Disaster.”
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Furthermore, The University Grants Commission (UGC) is also focusing on the institutionalization of Disaster Management.
Bhandari added, “Therefore, there is a need to critically examine our planning for disaster preparedness and safety by adopting some remedial measures to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).”
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