Shah to flag off SCO joint exercise on urban earthquake search, rescue

Home Minister Amit Shah will open the four-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) joint exercise on urban earthquake search and rescue - 2019. The joint exercise will happen at Ambedkar International Center, Janpath road, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony of the joint exercise will take place at 3 PM tomorrow.

The Home Ministry also released a tweet on their official Twitter handle informing about the four-day SCO joint exercise on Earthquake Search and Rescue.

Union Home Minister Shri @AmitShah will inaugurate the SCO Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search & Rescue - 2019 at Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi tomorrow, 4th Nov 2019 at 3pm. pic.twitter.com/0VagiA8FHg

— गृहमंत्री कार्यालय, HMO India (@HMOIndia)

India's  National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is hosting the exercise to rehearse disaster response mechanisms and share knowledge, experience, and technology. The main motto of this exercise will be to test and check the region's preparedness to activate intergovernmental interaction for an immediate response during the time of crisis.

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Rajnath Singh at SCO

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Saturday. Rajnath Singh asserted that the SCO must set the example for successful mutually beneficial cooperation. He said that even as the process of globalization has opened up immense opportunities for the growth of our countries, it has also brought to the fore challenges as well. Speaking about these challenges, he said, "These new threats are multidimensional, complex, and transnational. What is worse, they have a disproportionately adverse impact on developing countries. Climate change, terrorism, endemic poverty, and inequality, etc. can only be defeated together, not alone." He said that the SCO needs approaches, which are inclusive, transparent and firmly anchored in multilateralism and successful multilateralism also needs adherence to core principles of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference, and cooperation.

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(With inputs from ANI)