Disaster Management Centre, Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration Fairlawn Shimla in Collaboration with Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority organized State level three days basic and intermediate Training Programme on “Incident Response System” from 9th to 11th July, 2018 for the gazetted officers from the line departments. 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) under Section 6 of the DM Act, 2005 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. 

The programme was attended by 25 participants representing different Central and State Government departments situated in Himachal Pradesh. National Level Eminent  Resource Persons Col. V N Supanekar (Retd.), YASHADA, Government of Maharashtra, Pune and Col P K Pathak (Retd.),  Former Consultant, NIDM, New Delhi shared information  with the participants of the said programme on the topics viz Introduction to IRS; Module A:-Principles & Features of Incident Response System; Team Building Exercise; Module B:-Organisation & Staffing; Exercise on Module B:-Organisation & Staffing; Module C:- Incident facilities; Module D:- Incident Resource & Resource Management; Module E:- Organizing for Incidents & Events; Module F:- Incident & Event Planning. All the participants have shown keen interest and attention in all the sessions and participated actively in the group works and discussions too.  It was a diverse group of participants and this enriched the overall learning and training objectives.  Majority of participants rated the training programme and performance of Faculty as excellent & very good.