By Anup Biswas

Haflong : A meeting was today held at conference hall of Deputy Commissioner, Haflong to discuss the upcoming four days mega event from 3rd to 6th February, 2020 next. Addl Deputy Commissioner and CEO DDMA, Dipak Jidung preceded over the meeting attended by the officials from the line dept.

The Dima Hasao Emergency Management Exercise (EMExe)I sintended to bring together various line dept such as state and regional emergency responders, educational institutions, hospitals, health care professionals, humanitarian agencies, government departments, non-government organisations, civil society organisations and professionals from emergency management-related fields – to assess the district’s disaster preparedness and resilience, acquire new skills for emergency management and mass casualty events, and to develop a multi-disciplinary, inter-stakeholder, coordinated response during emergencies.

As informed by the official representative from Assam State Disaster Management Authority, Guwahati, present at the meeting today many top officials from the state government, resource persons as many as 15 in numbers including from UNICEF will be present during this four days mega event.