Kathmandu, Dec. 29
This year's National Earthquake Safety Day
programme's main ceremony will be organised at the Patan Durbar Square.
A meeting of the Main Organising Committee
of the ESD, 2021 held at the Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday decided to
organise the programme in the historical city in Lalitpur district.
The meeting was chaired by Minister for
Home Affairs, Bal Krishna Khand. The meeting decided to request Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba to be the chief guest of the programme.
Minister Khand said that the day should be
organised in a way that it would transmit awareness messages to people.
"It should be organised to inform especially the youth and students,"
he said.
An organisation sub-committee will be
formed under the chairmanship of the Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City while
a publicity committee will be formed under the leadership of the Director
General of the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction.
According to the ministry, posters bearing
the slogan of the 24th Earthquake Safety Day will be sent to all
government, community and private schools and arrangements will be made to mark
the day with the participation of teachers and students.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 30 December 2021.
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