{"id":22945,"date":"2026-06-19T01:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:58:21","slug":"preparedness-training-critical-for-disaster-response-dgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/preparedness-training-critical-for-disaster-response-dgp\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparedness, training critical for disaster response: DGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says mountain rescue teams crucial as cloudbursts, landslides rising<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Jun 18: Asserting that there is no substitute for readiness when dealing with challenging situations, Director General of Police (DGP) J&amp;K, Nalin Prabhat, on Thursday said preparedness and training remain the most critical elements of disaster response<\/p>\n<p>Addressing personnel from various rescue and security agencies during a joint training programme, the DGP, according to the news agency\u2014 Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said, \u201cMountain rescue teams play a crucial role in saving lives during emergencies, particularly as weather-related risks continue to increase every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn mountainous areas, the risk of cloudbursts and landslides is rising annually. Mountain Rescue Teams have a very important role to play. Training is a fundamental requirement for any force and any challenging task. There is no substitute for it,\u201d DGP Prabhat said.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the rescue operation in Gulmarg, the DGP lauded SDRF and MRT personnel for their dedication, professionalism and efficiency, describing their performance as being of \u201cglobal standards.\u201d He also informed the personnel that the accommodation benefits promised to those who participated in the Gulmarg rescue operation have been approved in principle and the process is awaiting final inputs from district police authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The DGP stressed that while individual forces may possess high levels of training, effective disaster response requires coordinated preparation and seamless cooperation among all agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how good the training of individual forces is, unless we train together for interoperability, we cannot achieve the goal of jointness and jointmanship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DGP Prabhat also congratulated the SDRF team for conducting a joint training capsule aimed at improving interoperability and coordinated deployment during rescue missions, terming it a first-of-its-kind initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Describing NDRF as the \u201cflag bearer\u201d of disaster management in the country, the DGP said other agencies should learn from its standards of training, equipment and preparedness. \u201cWe would like to learn best practices from NDRF and adopt them to further strengthen our response mechanism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing confidence ahead of the forthcoming Amaranth Yatra, the DGP said, \u201cI expect all participating agencies to maintain the same high standards of professionalism and performance demonstrated in previous rescue operations.\u201d (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says mountain rescue teams crucial as cloudbursts, landslides rising Srinagar, Jun 18: Asserting that there is no substitute for readiness when dealing with challenging situations, Director General of Police (DGP) J&amp;K, Nalin Prabhat, on Thursday said preparedness and training remain the most critical elements of disaster response Addressing personnel from various rescue and security agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22947,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions\/22947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}