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CIT GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR
(1956 – 2006)
One Day
Seminar On
Disaster
Management
9th December 2005
A one day
seminar on " Disaster Management" was held
at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, here on Friday jointly
organised by the department of Civil Engineering and Industry
Institute Partnership cell, CIT.
Disasters like Earthquakes, flood and cyclone present a major
threat to sustainable development. Therefore it necessitates,
research methodology and development of disaster management in our
country, including disaster management models, technical awareness
and training programme on disaster mitigation and the methods to
estimate the risk and hazard. This was the objective behind this
seminar on Disaster Management, says Mr. M. Kalaiarasu,
Lecturer in Civil Engineering and the coordinator of this seminar.
Mr.
Karunakaran, District Revenue officer, Coimbatore inaugurated
th e
seminar and addressed the student delegates and the faculty
members from technical institutions. Dr. R. Prabhakar,
Principal, Coimbatore Institute of Technology presided over the
inaugural function. The welcome address was delivered by Dr. K.
Subramanian, Professor and Head of Civil Engineering.
In the forenoon session of the seminar, a lecture on " Disaster
Risk Management" was delivered by Mr. V. G. Rajkumar, Project
officer, UEVRP, Disaster Management & Mitigation. He impressed the
delegates by his scintillating speech covering the basic issues of
Disasters and Hazards. A short movie on the " Tsunami attack in
Nagapattinam" was included in his presentation.
The afternoon
session was handled by Dr. K. Subramanian, Professor and
Head of Civil Engineering, who delivered a lecture on "Earthquake
effects and Basic Principles of Seismic Design". His lecture
included the entire A to Z basics of seismic design and few case
studies which was thought provoking.
About 120 delegates
including Corporation Engineers, Practicing Engineers, Teachers
from Engineering colleges and Students participated in this event.
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