New Delhi, Jan 23 (UNI) With an aim to recognise and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by individuals and organisations in India in the field of Disaster Management, the Cenre on Saturday awarded Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021 to Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society in the institutional category and Dr Rajendra Kumar Bhandari in the Individual category for their excellent work in Disaster Management.
The Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) has done commendable work in building community resilience to disasters. It has been working towards disaster readiness, response, and rehabilitation, building local capacities and enabling risk reduction at the community level in different States of India.
Dr Rajendra Kumar Bhandari has been among the pioneers in India who laid the foundation of scientific studies on geo hazards in general and landslides in particular. He established India’s first laboratory on landslide studies at CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), and three other Centres.
He also conducted studies on disasters in India, deployed latest technologies of Ground Penetrating Radar; Geotechnical Digital System; vibrating wire Piezometers; Laser Particle Analyser; Pile Drive Analyser and Acoustic Emission Technology for in-depth investigations, instrumentation, monitoring and risk analysis for Early Warning against Landslides.
The award is announced every year on January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 51 lakh and a certificate in case of an institution and Rs 5 lakh and a certificate in case of an individual.
For the award this year, nominations were solicited from July 1, 2020 and a total of 371 valid nominations were received from institutions and individuals.
In the year 2020, Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre, Uttarakhand in institution category and Mr Kumar Munnan Singh in Individual category were selected for this award.
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