LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Mayurbhanj, May 5: During President Droupadi Murmu’s visit on Thursday, a “Lightning Protection, Safety, and Knowledge System” was inaugurated at SLS Memorial School.
The commissioning of the lightning safe system makes the school, its building, children, teachers and surrounding houses in a radius of 107 meters safe. It will facilitate fearless education, games and extracurricular activities in and around school premises.
Notably, Mayurbhanj is the lightning capital of India both in terms of lightning occurrences and deaths.
Col Sanjay Srivastava, Chairman of the Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROPC) New Delhi, as well as other dignitaries, school staff, and students, attended the event.
It was carried out as part of the “North Odisha Tribal Lightning Resilience Programme” led by Maharaja Sri Ram Chandra Deo Bhanj University Baripada Vice Chancellor Subhash Kumar Tripathy and in collaboration with CROPC, the India Meteorological Department Ministry of Earth Science, and Fakir Mohan University Balasore.
It is worth noting that CROPC and IMD are running a countrywide “Lightning Resilience India Campaign” to educate people about available solutions to lightning hazards and save precious human and animal lives. The lightning arrester was sponsored by CIKIT Electricals and Technologies Chennai.
SLS Memorial School Management in-charge Muna Pratihari applauded the effort and conveyed that the President has applauded the initiative and expressed her thanks to the team of CROPC, MSCB University and associates.
Villagers of Paharpur apprised that lightning has increased phenomenally and there is always threat to the life of both human and animals in the village. The villagers have requested that Pahadpur being a highly lightning prone village, entire village should be made lightning safe so that they can have fearless life and livelihood.
