Training on Disaster Management for engineers, architects, geologists

GANGTOK, 09 June [IPR]: A four-day training on Rapid Visual Screening for Civil  Engineers,  Architects and Geologists was inaugurated by the Secretary Building and Housing, MB Gurung in the presence of the Secretary Cum Relief Commissioner, Land Revenue and Disaster Management Department, CT Wangdi  at the conference hall of Building and Housing Department.
The training was organised by the Sikkim state Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA) LR & DM, in coordination with the CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Assam and sponsored by National Disaster Management Authority. The training will conclude on 12 June.
Training will be conducted by three resource persons on various issues like Structural and non-structural earthquake risk mitigation, Earthquake hazard and earthquake risk mitigation, Behavior of buildings in earthquake, Earthquake Resistant Construction of Masonry buildings, Earthquake Resistant Construction of RCC Buildings, Rapid Visual Screening of Life-line Buildings, Seismic Retrofitting, Non-Structural Risk Mitigation, etc. The three resource persons are R Duarah [Chief Scientist, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat], Shashank Mishra [Consultant, TARU Leading edge, Gurgaon] and Dr. Hemant Kumar Vinayak [Assistant Professor, Civil Engineer NIT  Hamirpur].
Addressing the inaugural session the Secretary Building and Housing Department suggested that the engineers and geologists of the state should take maximum benefit of the training and implement the attained knowledge for the safety of the people during construction works.
He urged the trainees to go through the guideline of structural design during the time of construction and be very particular on quality of works and quality of materials. He also requested the Secretary LR&DM to technically modernize the State Disaster Management Cell. The Secretary thanked the resource persons for sharing their knowledge with the state officials on such an important subject.
The resource person Mr. Duarah spoke on the topic ‘Natural Hazard’, ways of dealing with it and seismic network.
Earlier, Additional Secretary LR&DM, TW Khangserpa delivered the welcome speech while the vote of thanks was proposed by Joint Director, GC Khanal.