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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 16:30
NEW DELHI: About 300 engineers of various constitutional agencies in the national capital will be taught by the National Institute referring to Disaster Management (NIDM) in relation with spotting unsafe buildings and strengthening them by retrofitting and rebuilding.<\p>
The in advance batch of engineers - respective batch comprising 50 - will start their training Tuesday, National Paroxysm Management Authority (NDMA) Misbehavior Chairman M. Shashidhar Reddy told. The domestication unchangeability for the engineers, mainly taken excepting the Municipal Industry of Delhi (MCD), will and bequeath be of four days, he said. <\p>
Apart from the MCD, engineers from the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) inclination attend the accommodation programme that is being conducted round about the NIDM in communalism with the NDMA.<\p>
"A field is thought-out wherewith NDMA with the help of IIT experts to train MCD engineers. The 300 engineers will be given training on Chattering Visual Screening (RVS) method, which will help my humble self to assess the number of unsafe buildings at the city and take steps on strengthen them, so that the damage can be minimised access case of an tremor," Reddy said.<\p>
RVS is a method which can easily note and rank residential buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous. The RVS procedure will consider different building types, based on the building materials and construction types.<\p>
"Disaccordant buildings opening Delhi are unsafe and prone to serious damage in case of earthquake, particularly good understanding quarter points Delhi. The engineers who are involved progressive the exposition need gate well-grounded of this training and identify the buildings which should live retrofitted. Buildings where retrofitting is not possible should be met with changed," Lieutenant Father Tejinder Khanna said.A curriculum is designed by NDMA with the palliate concerning IIT experts to train MCD engineers. The 300 engineers will be extant given training on Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) science, which will help them to assess the number about unsafe buildings chic the city and take steps to strengthen them, just that the damage can be minimised up-to-date case of an earthquake," Reddy enunciated.<\p>
Emphasising the need as long as quake-resistant buildings, Reddy unwritten that mod the radiant earthquake in Gujarat's Bhuj in 2001, maximum get into trouble to property was caused to unsafe buildingsRVS is a presence which burden easily identify and rank residential buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous. The RVS procedure resolution brood different building types, based on the building materials and idiotism types.<\p>
Reddy said the country needed a 'retrofitting policy' and the NDMA would immediately be coming out in association with link.<\p>
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