Training in disaster management.

December 22, 2022

As many as 60 youth will be trained under the 14 days Aapda Mitr Abhiyan at Kaza in Lahaul and Spiti.
The training will be held under the joint auspices of the sub-centre of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Mountaineering Institute at Jispa and the District Disaster Management authorities.
The district administration is organising the programme to prepare local youths to lead rescue operations effectively during disaster-like situations to save human lives and property.
It is for the first time that the institute’s sub-centre is imparting this type of training to the local youth at
The trained youth will be called disaster friend (Aapda Mitr).
These volunteers will render services to the Disaster Management Authority during any emergency and play an important role in saving human lives and property.”
Training is being imparted to the youth will make them capable to lead rescue operations during disasters like floods, earthquakes, landslides and cyclones.