With participation of national and international emergency experts, the Guwahati Emergency Management Exercise (GEMEx) - a joint emergency management programme - kicked off here on Monday.
The week-long programme, initiated by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with Assam State Disaster Management Authority and District Disaster Management Authority Kamrup (Metro) district, is the highest level of emergency management exercise ever conducted in the country after Mumbai and Chennai.
"According to the 2012 World Disaster Report, 15 million people across the world are displaced by natural and technical disasters every year. As many as 50,000 people are killed by earthquakes every year in the world. Flood affects the lives of 99 million people across the globe every year. Training to combat disasters has become crucial in view of such high number of causalities," said Margarita Tileva, the chief of emergencies, Unicef.
The week-long programme, initiated by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with Assam State Disaster Management Authority and District Disaster Management Authority Kamrup (Metro) district, is the highest level of emergency management exercise ever conducted in the country after Mumbai and Chennai.
"According to the 2012 World Disaster Report, 15 million people across the world are displaced by natural and technical disasters every year. As many as 50,000 people are killed by earthquakes every year in the world. Flood affects the lives of 99 million people across the globe every year. Training to combat disasters has become crucial in view of such high number of causalities," said Margarita Tileva, the chief of emergencies, Unicef.
