Our Correspondent

Doda, June 30

The Army today organised a disaster preparedness programme for all government departments with an aim to spread awareness regarding management of such situations in an efficient and organised manner.The programme was organised by 10 Rashtriya Rifles at Police Lines, Doda, where the Army carried out a joint exercise on disaster management in collaboration with the departments of civil administration, police, CRPF, SDRF, fire brigade, PWD, IRP and medical.The objective of the programme was to train and keep the entire department under single umbrella in such a situation and for better coordination in future.A real-time fire-fighting practice was also carried out jointly by the fire brigade and Army personnel followed by a rescue operation by an NGO, Chenab Rescuers.