Mock drill on Disaster readiness held at Kathua

Teams of NDRF, SDRF, Fire & Emergency Services present demos on SOPs to deal with emergency situations

KATHUA, February 17: District Administration Kathua, in collaboration with National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducted a Mock Drill on earthquake preparedness here in the premises of Government Degree College Kathua, today.

SSP,  Shivdeep Singh Jammwal, in presence of ADDC Ankur  Mahajan, presided over the Mock Drill executed by Special Rescue and Response teams of NDRF and SDRF headed by Assistant Commandant, 13 BN NDRF, Parveen Singh and Dy SP SDRF Sarabjeet Singh.

An earthquake-like situation was created at Government Degree College, Kathua presuming that the building partially collapsed due to the earthquake. The NDRF, SDRF, Fire Services, Ambulance services conducted the rescue operation and seriously injured and others in different medical conditions were shifted to makeshift base camp by following laid down procedure.

While lauding the efforts of the stakeholders involved in the mock drill exercise, the ADDC said the motive was to make all concerned departments and agencies operation ready to deal with the situation of earthquake disaster. She said the mock drill is a learning exercise for all participating departments, agencies besides NCC, NSS and other College students.

The ADDC appreciated NDRF for well coordinated drill and said such mock exercises will go a long way to create awareness among the people and keep the stakeholders in readiness to face any eventualities.

District Disaster Management Officer, Kathua Suninderjeet Kaur (Tehsildar HQ) said more such drills will be organised in other parts of the district in coming times.

 District and Sectoral Officers, Staff and students of GDC Kathua also witnessed the mock drill exercise.