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Earthquake precautionary steps taken up by Karbi Anglong admin


After the devastative earthquake that rocked in Sikkim on Sunday including in different parts of northeast States, the Karbi Anglong district administration has taken up emergency and earthquake precautionary steps.


In this regard, the District Disaster Management Authority has already been directed by the district administration to bring sensitization on the need of taking earthquake precautionary measures among the people and students.


In the meantime, several awareness programmes have already been organized since past few days by the district disaster management in active support of Howraghat based Ok-kereng Abhinava Sangha, an NGO in numbers of educational institutions on the earthquake preparedness in entire Howraghat area.



Today too, earthquake preparation mock drill programme was organized at Howraghat higher secondary Scholl under the smooth initiative of Punakan Pator and Dipen Chandra Pator, volunteer members of the Ok-kereng Abhinava Sangha.


During the sensitization programme numbers of students participated and the students were given various safety tips on the needed to take precautionary measures during the quake.


Photo1: Students were being given training how to survive during the erupting of earthquake.


Photo2: Numbers of Students participating in the earthquake preparation mock drill awareness programme held on Wednesday at Howraghat HS School.


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