Context
For the year 2021, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (in the institutional category) and Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari (in the Individual category) have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for their excellent work in Disaster Management.
About the award
- To recognize and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by individuals and organizations in India in the field of Disaster Management, Government of India has instituted an annual award known as Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar.
- The award is announced every year on January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
- The award carries a cash prize of ?51 lakh and a certificate in case of an institution and ?five lakh and a certificate in case of an individual.
- The award is given to recognise and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by individuals and organisations in India in the field of disaster management by the central government.
The awardees of 2021
For the year 2021, the following have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for their excellent work in disaster management:
1. Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (in the institutional category)
- SEEDS has done commendable work in building community resilience to disasters.
- It has been working towards disaster readiness, response, and rehabilitation, building local capacities and enabling risk reduction at the community level in different states.
2. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari (in the individual category)
- Bhandari is among the pioneers in India who laid the foundation of scientific studies on geo hazards in general and landslides in particular.
- He established India's first laboratory on landslide studies at CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), and three other centres.
- He also conducted studies on disasters in India, deployed latest technologies of Ground Penetrating Radar; Geotechnical Digital System; vibrating wire Piezometers; Laser Particle Analyser; Pile Drive Analyser and Acoustic Emission Technology for in-depth investigations, instrumentation, monitoring and risk analysis for early warning against Landslides.
