The National Civil Defence College,(abbreviated as NCDC) was formerly known as Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI), which was founded on 29 April 1957 in

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district of

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. It is the first disaster management training institute of the country. The conflicts of 1962 and 1965 compelled the

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to reorient its emergency training activities from natural disasters to those relating to protection of life and property, reducing damage and raising public morale during any war emergency. Hence, CERTI was renamed as National Civil Defence College on 1 April 1968. This college is identified as a premier training establishment in

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by the Ministry of Environment & Forests of Government of India. It is also listed/cataloged in UNDHA centres of Disaster relief training.

Courses

It conducts many courses for the Civil defence people ranging from

earthquake An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...

disasters,

cyclones In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an ant ...

chemical disasters A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemical substances may take the form of a single element or chemical compounds. If two or more chemical substances can be combin ...

, industrial disasters,

rail transport Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

accidents, etc. Following are the main courses conducted by the college: # Civil Defence Instructors Course. # Flood / Cyclone Disaster Response Course. # earthquake Disaster Response Course. # Basic Life Support Course. # Training of Trainers in Radiological Emergencies. # Chemical Disaster First Responders Course. # Biological Incident First Responders Course. # Auxiliary Fire Fighting Course. # Advanced Search & Rescue Course. # Unexploded Bombs & Explosive Safety. # Incident Management & Command System Course. # Emergency Response to Rail Transport Accident

References

External links

* {{Home Ministry (India) Emergency management in India