Bhubaneswar: The Odisha authorities on Saturday determined to include catastrophe and pandemic management in high school 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 mentioned it felt that everybody in the state ought to be properly ready to face the challenges posed by disasters reminiscent of frequent cyclones, and additionally the pandemic.
There was a time when Odisha was the topic of pity for going through calamities and shedding lives to disasters however immediately, the Odisha mannequin of catastrophe management attracts world admiration, the decision mentioned.
The centre of this transformation is the state’s deep conviction, and the catastrophe preparedness is rooted in neighborhood involvement, it mentioned.
“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 mentioned.
From now on, each high school and college pupil will study catastrophe and pandemic management as a part of the curriculum, he mentioned.
The state may also practice its worker on the basic nature of various sorts of catastrophe and pandemic management. Disaster and pandemic management shall be in the federal government recruitment syllabus as properly, Patnaik mentioned.
Elected representatives shall be skilled on catastrophe and pandemic management, he mentioned.
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 mentioned.
The Council of Ministers has resolved to make Odisha a number one state in catastrophe preparedness, prepared to deal with any catastrophe — whether or not it’s organic or climatic, Patnaik mentioned.
“Basically the objective is to have a ‘Yodha’ (warrior) in every home of Odisha,” the chief minister mentioned.
A job power shall be fashioned to carry ahead this mission of constructing a catastrophe and pandemic resilient Odisha, he mentioned.Â
