High-Level Experts Converge in Rishikesh for Life-Saving Meeting
Experts and professionals representing many of India’s foremost disaster response organizations held a focused, closed-door roundtable at Parmarth Niketan today to chalk out the course for protecting the populations of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi from disaster. India is one of the world’s most disaster prone nations, with millions impacted in 2017. The three states represented today, with a combined population of 23.3 crore people, face their own unique threats, including earthquake, flood, and drought. The meeting, hosted by Sphere India and the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), brought together distinguished representatives...