: A day after an earthquake shook Delhiites out of their beds, Talat Ahmad, an earth scientist and Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, urged the government to accept the University’s proposal to set up an Advanced Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Management to deal with natural calamities.
Preparing ahead
Prof. Ahmad was speaking at the inaugural session of the two-day national conference on ‘Geo-informatics for Natural Resource Management’ organised by the Department of Geography, JMI.
“It is a matter of coincidence that we have gathered here to discuss natural disasters just when last night the Capital was rocked by an earthquake. This only highlights the need to take natural calamities seriously, especially, to prepare our curricula to deal with them.” Prof. Ahmad said.
The V-C further said it was not possible to prevent natural calamities but measures could be taken to minimise their after-effects.
