NDRF trains Nepal police rescuers to tackle disasters

In order to strengthen the capabilities of Nepal’s disaster response forces, India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)  is conducting the first-ever training session for a squad of chosen police officials of the neighbouring country in such tasks.

The 10 officials of Nepal, which had witnessed a catastrophic earthquake in April this year killing thousands, are being trained in medical response, collapsed structure search and rescue and combating chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear emergencies by the NDRF. The NDRF is the central force of the country to respond to such emergency incidents with a country-wide reach.

“The effort is to enhance the capabilities of the Nepalese forces, while responding to any disaster-like challenges. A group of ten officials are being trained at the forces’ camp in Ghaziabad for a period of two weeks,” NDRF Director General OP Singh said.