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Earthquake Safety Day event to be held in Patan

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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