Chief minister Himanta BiswaSarmahas inaugurated a new Centre for Disaster Management and Research (CDMR) at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
The new facility was inaugurated recently in the presence of Prof. RK Bhandari, former director, Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Prof. T.G. Sitharam, director, IIT Guwahati, IITG faculty, researchers, and many national and international experts from around the world.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address delivered during 2020 convocation of IIT Guwahati, had requested the institute to establish this Centre for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction that will help the North-Eastern states in effectively managing various natural and industrial disasters.
The new facility was inaugurated during the Seventh edition of the prestigious quadrennial International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering andSoil Dynamics (ICRAGEE) conducted between 12th and 15th July 2021.