The Institute in collaboration with and District Administration Kinnaur organized district level three days basic and intermediate training Programme on “Incident Response System” from 17th to 19th September, 2019 at  Nahan. This programme was sponsored  by Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority. The target group of this programme consisted, 39 Officers from District Administrations, IRT Team and HoDs/Senior Officers from different departments at District Sirmaur. The three days programme was inaugurated by  Dr. R.K. Pruthi , IAS, Deputy Commissioner  Sirmaur. The main objective behind this programme was to follow the    Guidelines on the Incident Response System (IRS) issued by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)for effective, efficient and comprehensive management of disasters in the State of Himachal Pradesh and pre-designate the officers to perform various duties as well as train them in their respective roles and responsibilities.                                                     

National Level eminent resource person, Col. P. K. Pathak (Retd.), former Consultant, NIDM, New Delhi described the objective of the programme and imparted information on all the Modules of Basic and Intermediate Course of Incident Response System.  All the participants shown keen interest and attention in all the sessions and participated actively in group works and discussions. The Chief Guest for closing session was  Mrs. Priyanka Verma, IAS, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sirmaur, who addressed the participants and also took the feedback from them  regarding the three days programme and thereafter the participation certificates have been distributed to the participants by her.