Imphal, Oct. 16 -- A five-day training programme on seismic hazards concluded at Manipur University on Friday, with 39 academic participants from across India taking part. More than half of the participants were women.

The programme was jointly organised by the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR-NGRI) and the university's Department of Earth Sciences. It was funded under the CSIR-Integrated Skill Initiative of the Union Ministry of Science and Technology.

At the valedictory ceremony, Environment and Climate Change Director Tourangbam Brajkumar Singh called for more specialised scientific training in Manipur, given the region's high seismic risk. He said local studies were essential to generate data for disaster risk redu...