{"id":316307,"date":"2019-11-03T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316307"},"modified":"2019-11-03T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T04:00:13","slug":"union-home-minister-amit-shah-to-inaugurate-scojtex-2019-on-november-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-to-inaugurate-scojtex-2019-on-november-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate SCOJTEX-2019 on November 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/amit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-1.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/amit-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search &amp; Rescue (SCOJtEx-2019) on November 4 at Dr Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the initiative of Government of India, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is hosting \u201cShanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Joint Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue Exercise (SCOJtEx.)-2019\u201d of all 8 SCO member countries, with the aim to rehearse the disaster response mechanism, share knowledge, experience, technology &amp; also for\u00a0mutual coordination, etc.\u00a0 This exercise shall also provide an opportunity to enhance the coordination &amp; co-operation involving multi-agency operations in an earthquake scenario, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four-day long simulation exercise shall be held from November 4-7 at Delhi. The participants of all 8 member countries namely China, India, Kazakhastan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan shall be participating in this exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four-day long simulation exercise shall be conducted as per the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) methodology and guidelines.\u00a0 There will be a Joint Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue Exercise for Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states followed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization experts meeting of Ministries responsible for Prevention and Elimination\u00a0of Emergency Situation, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The main focus of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue (SCOJtEx-2019) shall be to test the region\u2019s preparedness and resilience towards effective activation of Inter- governmental interaction for immediate response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides, representatives from INSARAG, Asian Coordination Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA), Brazil, Mongolia, South Africa have been invited as observers. Representatives from the embassies of all SCO member nations, heads of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and representatives of other stakeholders shall also be participating in this exercise, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search &amp; Rescue (SCOJtEx-2019) on November 4 at Dr Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi, the statement said. On the initiative of Government of India, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is hosting \u201cShanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Joint Urban Earthquake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1194,11948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316308,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316307\/revisions\/316308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}