The Hindu 18.10.2010
Disaster management training for teachers
Staff Reporter
KOCHI: Teachers of 35 schools in the city will be imparted training in safety measures to be adopted at educational institutions in case of disasters. The programme will be held at the Town Hall here on Monday as part of School Suraksha—School Safety and Awareness Programme—which is jointly organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme.
Discussions on various aspects of disaster management and the preparation of school disaster management plan and awareness programmes will be held. The session will begin at 11.30 a.m.
Lecture demonstrations regarding fire safety at schools and the dos and don'ts for evacuation in case of a disaster will also be held.
The teachers are being trained as part of the urban risk reduction component of the scheme. The State authorities have included 125 schools from hazard-prone areas of the Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur and Kozhikode Corporations in the programme. The authorities have selected 25 schools each from Kollam, Thrissur and Kozhikode Corporations and 35 each from Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi.
The schools were included in the programme as schoolchildren were the most vulnerable group in the society to disasters. The teachers training programme will be followed by school-level awareness programmes.
