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	MASON TRAINNING
	SHOCK TABLE TEST
	SHOCK TABLE TEST VIDEOS

News & Events

	PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES IN 3 YEARS FOLLOWING KUTCHCH EARTHQUAKE OF JAN 26, 2001
	CAUTION TO OWNERS OF DAMAGED HOME IN KASHMIR
	PAPERS ON DISASTER MITIGATION
	CASE STUDIES OF SEISMIC RETROFITTING FROM LATUR TO KASHMIR -INDIA

Publications

	POSTERS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY IN KASHMIR
	MANUAL FOR RESTORATION AND RETROFITTING OF RURAL STRUCTURES IN KASHMIR
	TRAINER'S GUIDE FOR TRAINING IN HAZARD-RESISTANT CONSTRUCTION
	MANUAL ON HAZARD RESISTANT CONSTRUCTION IN INDIA.
	BUILDING A HAZARD RESISTANT HOUSE - A COMMON MANS GUIDE

Home :: Awareness Creation

CREATING AWARENESS & BUILDING CONFIDENCE

The next step in Capacity Building is creating a felt-need among the house-owners for safety against future disasters through the use of disaster-resistant techniques. Only then will the trained building artisans be called upon to deliver the needed technology. This process involves educating the people through various means...

1	Information dissemination through brochures, booklets, posters, videos and street-plays.
2	Meetings held with members of both genders and with people of all economic backgrounds and casts. Meetings allow group discussions for effective communication.

3	Interaction with school children to take the necessary information home through interactive talks, rallies, essay and drawing competitions.
4	Confidence building in these techniques so that people would commit their time, effort and, hard-earned money to employ them.

NCPDP attempts to build peoples' confidence through "live demonstration" by constructing on a shaking platform two house models (half scale); one with old technique and one with improved technique. These are then subjected to simulated earthquake conditions to demonstrate the effectiveness of the improved technology to withstand earthquakes.


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