Srinagar: Today a review meeting of all the officers of SDRF 1st Bn , Director Home Guards Kashmir, Dy SsP of Home Guards and Civil Defence posted in various districts of Kashmir was conducted at Dal Lake, Srinagar to review the progress of various Disaster Management/ Mitigation, awareness & training programmes being carried out throughout Kshmir and also to assess the Water Rescue skill up gradation training in Swimming and Boat Driving being carried out in Dal Lake, Srinagar for the last over two months.
The trainees , 37 in number carried out a Water Rescue exercise at SKICC Ghat of Dal Lake where all the officers from the districts, Director Home Guards, Commandant SDRF 1st Bn and Commandant General/DG SDRF, Homeguards and Civil Defence, J&K witnessed the exercise. Despite very low temperature and heavy rains the trainees jumped in the Dal Lake one by one and showed their swimming and rescue skills. They all were tested on Boat Driving skills also.
“The training programme in the Dal Lake started from 2nd October-2017 onwards wherein first combined batch of (45) personnel of SDRF 1st Bn Srinagar and SDRF 2nd Bn Jammu were imparted training both in Swimming and Boat Driving and now the 2nd batch of 37 personnel from SDRF components of all ten districts of Kashmir valley and the SDRF Bn Hqrs Srinagar personnel participated.” The efforts put in have produced highly commendable results wherein a combined strength of (82) SDRF personnel have been trained in Water Rescue Management from Jammu and Srinagar battalions.
Similar exercise was conducted in Jammu in Chenab River at Akhnoor yesterday wherein a large number of trained SDRF personnel participated in the rescue exercise
