ITBP, NDMA to bring 200 experts for disaster management symposium in Chandigarh

Panchkula, Sep 17 (UNI) More than 200 disaster-management experts, scientists, security personnel and administrators from across India will gather in Chandigarh for a two-day symposium beginning September 17 to examine preparedness for earthquakes, cloudbursts, flash floods, landslides, avalanches and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), through its National Institute of Training for Search Rescue & Disaster Response (NITSRDR), is organising the September 17-18 Integrated Symposium on Disaster Management jointly with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) at MGSIPA, Chandigarh, according to a press release issued here today. The meeting assumes significance against the backdrop of the…