CRPF to set up first Disaster Management Training Institute in Mah

Nagpur, Feb 19 (UNI) Central Reserve Police Force (Western Region) Inspector General of Police Atul Kumar Mathur today said CRPF was coming up with the country's first Disaster Management Training Institute at Latur in Maharashtra.

Speaking to media during his visit to the city to attend the passing out parade of CRPF Camp here, Mr Mathur said the Disaster Management Training Institute would be ready within two years. The institute would come up on 200 acre land and the expertise would be developed and training impared to face challenges of nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) attacks and other disasters, he said.

Mr Mathur said the CRPF had raised two battalions exclusively to deal with the NBC threats. Assistance from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre experts was being sought to impart training to these two battalions, he informed.

Mr Mathur lamented that Maharashtra was not taking assistance from the CRPF in dealing with the Maoists in Vidarbha region.

At the passing out parade held at CPRF Camp here a total of 904 CRPF recruits passed out. Shweta Sharma, Assistant Commandant and others led the passing out parade.

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