Coimbatore: The Regional Science Centre here is planning to train college students in disaster mitigation measures such as handling the fallout of flood, fire and building collapse.
Apart from the coaching to apply first aid and removing victims to ambulances, the Centre would also bring in experts to explain the scientific reasons behind such calamities, how to avoid them and draw up contingency plans, T.M. Alagiri Swamy Raju, Project Director (in-charge), Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore, told The Hindu here on July 18 Thursday.
The Centre would approach the colleges for these programmes, which would be conducted free of cost. Besides a 3D theatre to screen science films, he said that it also had a modern auditorium, capable of accommodating 175, to conduct such programmes. |
