Dehradun (Uttarakhand), March 22 -- : Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday inaugurated the "International Conference on Use of Modern Technology for Disaster Management" in Dehradun.
He said that the Himalayan states are extremely vulnerable from the point of view of disasters.
"Earthquakes, landslides, cloud bursts, forest fires etc natural calamities keep on happening here, due to which it is natural to cause huge loss of people and money. The only way to deal with these disasters is a proactive approach. The outbreak of disasters can be minimized only by a proactive approach," he said.
The Chief Minister said that along with disasters, earthquakes are a big threat to our state, to avoid such disasters, special at...