One day awareness programme on disaster management at Hojai

Nagaon: An one day awareness programme on disaster management was organized at the office of the District Industries and Commerce Centre (DI&CC) located at Srimanta Sankardev Nagar in Hojai recently. The event was organized jointly by DI&CC and Hojai Unnayan Mancha (HUM), in association with District Disaster Management Authority(DDMA), Hojai in presence of Health Departments, Employment Exchange, Labour department and participants from Industry representatives. The main topic of the awareness programme was every day disaster, disaster recovery planning in a public gathering, types of disaster etc. The programme was inaugurated by Himporna Kalita, DPO, DDMA, Hojai along with Ringham Kemprai, Station Officer, F&ESS, Hojai Fire Brigade who explain about the types of disaster like fire, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, pandemics, volcano eruptions, wildfires, floods, mass shootings, acts of terror, nuclear explosions, chemical emergencies and day to day disaster recovery, planning in public gathering and types of disaster etc and demonstrated about fire precaution with gas cylinder and electronic short circuit. Rupanjit Bhattacherjee, i/c General Manager of DI&CC, Sujay Kumar Dutta, Secretary of Hojai Unnayan Mancha (HUM) appeal to all to follow day to day fire safety measures with clean atmosphere and to preserve Emergency Toll Free Number 101, a press release added here.