The major objectives of the programme are to:
? Provide comprehensive knowledge to the learners on disaster preparedness, mitigation and rehabilitation.
? Enable the learners to carry out risk assessment and vulnerability analysis.
? Generate community awareness, and strengthen institutional mechanism for community mobilisation and
participation in disaster management.
? Develop communication skills for disaster preparedness.
? Create greater awareness about effective disaster response in various emergency situations.
? Equip learners with tools for meeting emergency medical requirements.
? Incorporate gender sensitive disaster management approach; and
? Inculcate newskills and sharpen existing skills ofgovernment officials, voluntary activists, development professionals and elected representatives for effective disaster management.
Fee Structure: Rs. 6,300/- for full programme
Soft copy link for Self Learning Material (SLM)
Target Group
The Post Graduate Diploma in Disaster Management shall cater to the needs of the following target groups:
? Government functionaries
? NGO functionaries and Volunteers
? Military, Para-military, Police, Home Guards, and Civil Defence personnel
? Geologists, Scientists, Meteorologists, Engineers, Administrators, and other Government and Public Sector
Undertakings officials
? Rural Development Functionaries, Primary Health Centres Functionaries, Relief Workers, Social Workers,
Environmentalists, etc.
