State Minister visits construction of Disaster Management Training Institute in Gazipur
Gazipur Correspondent
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief M. Iqbal Hossain, MP, inspected the construction progress of the National Disaster Management Research and Training Institute in Gazipur on Friday.
Briefing reporters during the visit, the state minister said the institute is being established to build a skilled workforce for disaster risk reduction, conduct research on climate-change-induced calamities, strengthen institutional disaster management capacity, and execute related relief and mitigation initiatives.
He added that specialized training programs for officials of all disaster-related agencies as well as volunteers will be conducted at the facility, expressing optimism that the center will emerge as a premier disaster research and training hub in South Asia and globally.
Located on 8.20 acres of land within Gazipur City Corporation, the complex will feature an academic-cum-administrative building alongside a six-story hostel for residential trainees. Under the first phase, construction up to the third floor of both the academic building and the hostel will be completed at an allocated cost of Tk 47 crore.
Project Director Russel Sabrin and other senior officials accompanied the state minister during the inspection.
