Governor of W Bengal MK Narayanan rap for Disaster Centre |
| OUR CORRESPONDENT |
Siliguri, April 10: Governor M.K. Narayanan yesterday told the North Bengal University authorities that not much had been done to set up the centre of excellence for disaster management that he had suggested last year. “While addressing the last annual convocation I had urged the university authorities the need for establishing a centre for carrying out research on the disaster management. I thought that since this was a landslide-prone area, the university needs to make it its priority. But I think not much has been done,” he said at the convocation yesterday. Later Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was awarded the DLitt and S. Chandrasekaran, chairman of Indian Institute of Science, the DSc. Praful Rao |
SaveTheHills(STH) is a group of concerned citizens who are raising awareness about landslides in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Many landslides are the direct or indirect result of human interference and preventable if sufficient care is taken. As such, unless we begin a comprehensive and sustained program towards landslide management, prevention and mitigation, the consequences of ignoring years of human callousness will, in the future be devastating.
Praful - Good work by your organisation but I still say after our short discussions there is still so much to do especially in the remote areas!!!
ReplyDeleteMy suggestion for whatever its worth I feel that your NGO(Save the Hills) should bring up your points with the FORESTS DEPARTMENT AND THIS DEPARTMENT SHOULD BEGIN a COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROGRAM IN REMOTE AND SEMI- REMOTE AREAS THAT YOU HAVE HIGHLIGHTED IN YOUR PICS!!
This is the worst and most useless department that exists believe you me!!there is no help from them especially in the remote areas I feel that you guys should put the pressure on the Forest department and get them out of their cosy offices and bums out of their chairs and take them along on your next visits to the remote areas!!The hills definitely need a massive community forest program if we are to save the hills from natural disasters such as landslides and soil erosions!!