Amargadhi (Dadeldhura), Apr 18: The Water Induced Disaster Prevention Department organised a mobile seminar on water induced disaster reduction here on Monday. Acting chairman of the district development committee (DDC) Nar Bahadur Bista inaugurated the seminar.

Forty persons including teachers, chairmen of village development committees (VDCs), representatives of the DDC and Amargadhi Municipality and the district NGOs, police, administration, irrigation and soil conservation and road offices attended the seminar.

On the occasion, acting DDC chairman Bista said that the seminar will suggest ways to prevent water-induced disasters in Dadeldhura district which is more prone to such disasters. Chief district officer Dilli Prasad Shivakoti urged the participants to extend the knowledge gained through the seminar to the grassroots level.

Chief of the administration section of the water induced disaster prevention department Amar Kumar Pradhan shed light on the importance of the seminar.

Acting Mayor of Amargadhi Municipality Padma Singh Bhandari presided over the programme. Various working papers on the impact of water induced disasters and ways of disaster mitigation were presented at the seminar. The participants were also taken on an inspection tour of the Radunwa Khola Erosion Prevention Project.