Disaster, pandemic management to be part of college, college curriculums in Odisha.
The Odisha authorities on Saturday determined to embrace catastrophe and pandemic management in highschool and college curriculums.
A decision in this regard was handed at a gathering of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
The Council of Ministers stated it felt that everybody in the state ought to be effectively ready to face the challenges posed by disasters akin to frequent cyclones, and in addition the pandemic.
There was a time when Odisha was the topic of pity for dealing with calamities and dropping lives to disasters however at this time, the Odisha mannequin of catastrophe management attracts world admiration, the decision stated.
The centre of this transformation is the state’s deep conviction, and the catastrophe preparedness is rooted in neighborhood involvement, it stated.
“The time has come for us to create a massive knowledge infrastructure in the state that will make everyone a warrior. Today, we are taking a futuristic decision. We will train our people at large on how to deal with known emergencies and how to respond to situations where the outcome cannot be predicted,” the chief minister stated.
From now on, each highschool and college scholar will study catastrophe and pandemic management as part of the curriculum, he stated.
The state will even practice its worker on the basic nature of completely different sorts of catastrophe and pandemic management. Disaster and pandemic management will be in the federal government recruitment syllabus as effectively, Patnaik stated.
Elected representatives will be skilled on catastrophe and pandemic management, he stated.
Besides, the federal government will practice members of Mission Shakti teams, Vana Surakya Samitis, and different community-based organisations and equip them with the data required to handle disasters and pandemics, he stated.
The Council of Ministers has resolved to make Odisha a number one state in catastrophe preparedness, prepared to sort out any disaster- whether or not it’s organic or climatic, Patnaik stated.
“Basically the objective is to have a ‘Yodha’ (warrior) in every home of Odisha,” the chief minister stated.
A process pressure will be shaped to carry ahead this mission of constructing a catastrophe and pandemic resilient Odisha, he stated.
