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ShareNew Delhi: As the fire at an IOC depot in Jaipur claimed 12 lives, the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) today said it will soon send a team of experts to the inferno site to find out the reason for the disaster.
"Our team will visit Jaipur to find out how did the fire breakout, what happened there and what went wrong," NIDM executive director PG Dhar Chakrabarti told reporters here.
Chakrabarti said the team, after visiting the fire site, will submit its report to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Environment and Forests for necessary action. He said the country has around 2,500 hazardous industries and many of them are prone to man-made disaster.
Chakrabarti said the second India Disaster Management Congress will begin here from tomorrow. The three-day congress is expected to bring together 1,500 scientists, scholars and practitioners working on different aspects of disaster risk reduction and management across the world.
A number of issues pertaining to disaster risk reduction, management, emergency response and various cross cutting issues during disaster events will be the focus of discussion in this congress, he said.
Twenty-eight technical/thematic sessions are proposed to be organised in around 13 thematic clusters which include geological disasters (earthquake, landslide and avalanche), hydro meteorological disasters (flood, cyclone, drought), man-made disasters (industrial and chemical, nuclear emergencies and road accidents), science and technology (early warning and disaster communication, geo-information system).
