{"id":68851,"date":"2019-06-07T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68851"},"modified":"2019-06-07T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:52:57","slug":"tabletop-exercise-on-disaster-mgmt-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/07\/tabletop-exercise-on-disaster-mgmt-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop exercise on disaster mgmt held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>PASIGHAT, Jun 6:<\/strong> The East Siang district administration organised a tabletop exercise on disaster management here on Thursday, in collaboration with the police department and the Dhemaji (Assam)-based National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).<br \/>\n&#8220;A prepared society is always safe. It is a good time to reexamine what we&#8217;ve done so far, what mistakes we&#8217;ve made, and what improvements should come next,&#8221; Deputy Commissioner Kinny Singh, who is also the district disaster management authority chairperson, said.<br \/>\nShe informed that NDRF personnel will stage a mock drill in the flood-prone Bakul area of Mebo subdivision on 7 June.<br \/>\nThe DC said the ADCs of the respective subdivisions would act as &#8220;incident commanders,&#8221; and directed them to be responsive to the people in their subdivisions.<br \/>\nRegarding pre- and post- disaster situations, she said the administration would keep a close watch on the situation.<br \/>\nThe DC also advised government officers not to leave their stations during the coming monsoon &#8220;and stay prepared to deliver prompt service as and when required.&#8221;<br \/>\nEast Siang SP Prashant Gautam, who is the chief of operations, enumerated several preventive steps, and urged the people living in low-lying areas to be alert.<br \/>\nNDRF Assistant Commandant Vimal Gupta and Inspector Sunil Kr Yadav spoke on the role of the NDRF and offered lifesaving tips through a PowerPoint presentation. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Jun 6: The East Siang district administration organised a tabletop exercise on disaster management here on Thursday, in collaboration with the police department and the Dhemaji (Assam)-based National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). &#8220;A prepared society is always safe. It is a good time to reexamine what we&#8217;ve done so far, what mistakes we&#8217;ve made, [&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-68851","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\/68851","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=68851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}