The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Barisal

A three-day long training workshop organised by Press Institute of Bangladesh on environment and disaster management reporting was inaugurated on Saturday at Barisal LGED auditorium.

Thirty journalists from seven districts in including six districts of Barisal division and Bagerhut district of Khulna division participated in the workshop.

Prof.Dr.Muhammad Abdur Rob, chairman Bangladesh Red Crescent Society as chief guest inaugurated the programme presided over by Zakir Hossain, director training of PIB. Manjur-E-Elahi, Deputy Commissioner of Barisal was special guest Fazlul Wahab, director Cyclone Preparedness programme, Dr.Paramesh Nandi, Divisional Officer of Forest Research institute,Abdur Rahman Khan, special correspondent of The Holiday,Kaisar Ahmed, deputy Director of environment directorate, Dr. Abdur Rashid, Deputy Director of Health Services, as resources persons and ASM Abdul Huq, as coordinator and conductor participating in the programme.

In three days training workshop important issues like climate change and Bangladesh's vulnerability to national disaster, disaster response and cyclone preparedness program, coastal afforest ration programme, disaster mitigation, climate rilisent coastal development in Bangladesh, impact of disaster on bio-diversity in the coastal areas, emergency medical response in disaster, local government response to disaster management and the standing order on disaster, techniques of environment and disaster reporting, overview on disaster reporting in different media, media response to disaster and online reporting techniques, experience sharing on resent cyclone Sidr, would be discussed in different inter active sessions.