{"id":128655,"date":"2020-06-20T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=128655"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:16:21","slug":"rgu-conducts-online-prog-on-disaster-risk-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/rgu-conducts-online-prog-on-disaster-risk-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU conducts online prog on disaster risk reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Jun 19:<\/strong> The social work department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) conducted an online capacity building programme on &#8216;Disaster risk reduction with special reference to earthquake, flood, landslide, fire and other emergent hazards&#8217; from the university here on Friday.<br \/>\nThe programme witnessed a total of three technical sessions over eight hours through the Google Meet platform, with the participation of experienced resource persons from all over the country.<br \/>\nThe resource persons included Ghaziabad (UP)-based 8th Bn NDRF Commandant PK Srivastava, Bhatinda (Punjab)-based 7th Bn NDRF Commandant Ravi Kumar Pandita, and NDMA senior consultant and retired brigadier Kuldip Singh.<br \/>\nRGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha in his inaugural address emphasized on strengthening engineering and technological capacities to minimize disaster impacts. &#8220;Building skills and insights of key stakeholders becomes the most viable disaster solution,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nRGU Pro-VC, Prof Amitava Mitra said &#8220;the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a leading global initiative on disaster management, recognizes that the responsibility of reducing disaster risk should be shared with other stakeholders, including local government, the private sector and others concerned.&#8221;<br \/>\nRGU Registrar, Prof Tomo Riba opined that there are no such things as &#8220;natural disasters.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hazards are natural events, occurring more or less frequently and of a greater or lesser magnitude, but disasters are due to risk-blind development,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nSocial Work HoD, Dr Kaushalendra Pratap Singh highlighted the need for capacity building programmes on disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Jun 19: The social work department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) conducted an online capacity building programme on &#8216;Disaster risk reduction with special reference to earthquake, flood, landslide, fire and other emergent hazards&#8217; from the university here on Friday. The programme witnessed a total of three technical sessions over eight hours through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}