Government assures support for making SDRFs self-sufficient

NEW DELHI: The Centre today assured the states all help to make their disaster response forces self-sufficient.

Addressing a conference on capacity building of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) 2017, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi emphasised that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and SDRFs work together on disaster risk reduction.

He assured the state representatives every possible help for making SDRF a "self-contained response force."

The home secretary asked NDRF and SDRFs to educate the community and adopt new technologies to tackle the emerging challenges besides their primary role, an official release said.

He underlined the strengthening of SDRF through specialised training and equipping it with latest gadgets for prompt and timely response to disaster.

The representatives of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand gave their presentations on the current status of SDRFs and the steps to be taken for strengthening it.