NDMA gets equipment to fight disasters

ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has received high-tech information communication technology from the World Food Programme (WFP) to enhance the unit’s communication capacity in disaster situations.

The equipment would provide real-time coverage of the disaster-affected area immediately after any calamity. WFP Country Director Wolfgang Herbinger handed over the equipment, consisting of a broadband global area network, to NDMA member Shaukat Nawaz Tahir. Other senior officials of the NDMA and the WFP were also present. The transmission of live data from the affected region would allow the national and provincial governments to dispatch response-and-recovery missions accordingly. The NDMA is planning to replicate the same communication system at the provincial and district levels to enhance connectivity for the provincial and hazard-prone districts of the country. Link...