Disaster Management Institute to come up in Maharashtra

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16th Mar 2008
Disaster Management Institute to come up in Maharashtra
New Delhi, PTI:
Police forces in the country will get a national-level disaster management institute in Maharashtra in a year to train its personnel on how to respond during natural and man-made disasters.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will lay the foundation stone of the Disaster Management Training Institute in Latur in the state on March 23.
The institute, to be set up at a cost of around Rs 92.99 crore, is a brainchild of CRPF and will train police personnel, who are the first to respond during disasters.

CRPF will run the institute and train its over two lakh personnel, a senior CRPF official said.
The training facility will also be available to other paramilitary forces and police organisations including state forces, the official said, adding about 700 personnel will be trained at a time.
The institute, first of its kind in the country, will have three core facilities -- medical, flood rescue and relief and nuclear, biological and chemical disasters.
The first core facility is about medical responder and collapsed structure rescue which are two main modules and will deal with disaster situations.
The second will focus on flood rescue and relief operations. This will also train personnel for dealing with fire accidents and other mishaps like those involving planes and trains.
The third facility will be for training in nuclear, biological and chemical disaster management, the official added.