AGARTALA, June 16 (TIWN): A District level joint mock drill on earthquake disaster with district stake holders was conducted on Thursday at District-West Tripura along with other Districts.

These exercises are expected to ensure activation and prompt response of all stake holders in a district and such frequent mock drills also make the distinct response system more effective and result oriented at the time of actual disaster.

Mock drills provide suitable platform and sustainable mechanism for State and Central authorities for synchronization and rapid employment of rescuers at District or State level. These exercises should be frequently conducted in every district as the whole NE region falls under high risk zone in terms of earthquake.

District authorities, volunteers, NGOs and local publics were involved in the joint mock drill, after the exercise de-briefing session was done in which role of NDRF was highly appreciated by huge gathering of local public civil administration in successfully conducting the joint mock drill.

A District level table set up earthquake scenario demonstrated by V.K.Dutta, consulted of NDMA at civil secretariat on June 16.

The meeting held with all District level officials and they discussed about the steps to be taken in future as for ‘Earth-quake safety’ in state.

However, as Tripura is under one of the major Earthquake zones, so NDRF team is visiting in state to aware the Govt. and people here, along with Disaster management dept. and other govt. depts.

Vision of NDRF is to emerge as the most visible and vibrant multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled, high-tech force capable to deal with all types of natural as well as manmade disasters and to mitigate the effects of disasters.

It’s worthy to mention here that Tripura is on the high risk of massive earthquake as it is situated on seismic zone-­V and has probability of occurrence earthquakes measuring more than 8 magnitudes on Richter scale. 

A recent survey found that the capital city- Agartala is uniquely positioned to render massive physical damage to the residents in any natural calamities like earthquakes above 6.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale occurs.