Odisha CM Stresses On Advance Planning, Quick Rescue & Restoration In Disaster Management

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik stressed on advance planning, quick rescue, and restoration while chairing a meeting of the State-level Natural Disaster Committee through video conferencing.

“The State Government has taken several result-oriented measures to lessen the danger to people from various natural disasters. Our preparedness should be dynamic, collective, and participatory in nature,” said Patnaik in his address.

He said that different measures for advance planning, quick rescue and restoration including long-term measures are our fundamental policy approach towards disaster management.

The Chief Minister advised the State administration to remain prepared with Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) gained through experience.

“Odisha remains the foremost State to institutionalise community-based preparation. Our experience in community-based management has been also very helpful in COVID management,” Patnaik said.

“Our State is a natural disaster-prone State. Despite facing several dangers due to natural disasters, we are prepared to tackle any situation,” he pointed out.

“Always we have been learning from past disasters and make an endeavour bring improvement in our preparation for possible calamity. We have been praised by all sectors for learning from our experience and subsequent preparedness,” he added.

Patnaik said that period from June till October is very crucial since during this period natural disasters like floods, cyclones, droughts can take place so we need to review our preparedness regularly in view of these disasters.