We have moved forward in disaster management, but there are grounds to cover: Kiren Rijiju Inaugurates National Seminar on 'Exploring Social Sciences Tools in Teaching Disaster Research'

We have moved forward in disaster management, but there are grounds to cover: Kiren Rijiju

Inaugurates National Seminar on 'Exploring Social Sciences Tools in Teaching Disaster Research'

The Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju has said that we have moved forward in disaster management, but there are grounds to cover. He was addressing the National Seminar on 'Exploring Social Sciences Tools in Teaching Disaster Research', here today, organized by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Research, JNU in collaboration with National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs.

Shri Rijiju said that we need to form a policy based on the ground situation. The world is becoming vulnerable day-by-day because of the way we are progressing, and the way we are moving about, we are bound to face the eventuality, he added. The Minister of State for Home Affairs said that Disaster Management should not only involve relief operation, rescue, rehabilitation, reconstruction but also strike the root cause of it and prevent the disaster. That is where the research should be precise, he added.

Shri Rijiju appealed the private sector to take part in the Disaster Management. The country has understood how to deal with disaster management and disaster preparedness and we have to integrate the same with the research, he added.

Prof. S.K.Sopory, Vice Chancellor of JNU, expressed the need for diluting boundaries of compartmentalized research studies going around the world. He suggested that fragmented research has emerged due to the weaknesses of human comprehension but an effort to undertake trans-disciplinary research would overcome it. The session was also addressed by Dr. V.K. Dadwal, Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, Dr. Nivedita P Haran, former Add. Chief Secretary, Kerala, Prof. Santosh Kumar, DG, NIDM, Shri O.P. Singh, DG, NDRF, Dr. Suman Sharma, Principal, LSR College DU and Dr. Gajendra Kumar Sharma, DG, World Animal Protection.