Roorkee: Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday just about attended a one-day workshop on disaster threat resilience and mitigation on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. He highlighted Uttarakhand’s excessive vulnerability to earthquakes, landslides, floods, cloudbursts, avalanches, forest fires and rising environmental challenges, stressing the necessity for sustained preparedness and proactive planning to cut back disaster dangers.“Through the adoption of modern technologies and scientific interventions, we have continuously strengthened Uttarakhand’s disaster mitigation capabilities. These efforts are significant and exemplary among Himalayan states. Even in the Himalayan region, we have reduced carbon emissions by 72 tonnes through plastic waste management,” Dhami stated.Though scheduled to attend the workshop in particular person, Dhami addressed the occasion just about as a result of dense fog. He acknowledged IIT Roorkee’s nationally vital contributions to earthquake early warning techniques, AI-enabled forecasting, distant sensing, GIS-based modelling, and its scientific help for coverage formulation and field-level implementation.“IIT Roorkee has emerged as a key national partner in strengthening early-warning systems, scientific mapping and capacity building, and the state govt is fully committed to deepening collaborations so that research outcomes translate into real-time protection of lives and livelihoods,” he added.The occasion introduced collectively policymakers, scientists, disaster administration professionals and educational leaders to deliberate on methods to strengthen preparedness and resilience in disaster-prone areas, with a particular concentrate on Uttarakhand’s fragile Himalayan ecosystem. The workshop was organised in partnership with Shri Trilochan Upreti Smriti Himalayan Sodh Sansthan.Bhagwati Prasad Raghav, zonal convenor (Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh) of Prajna Pravah, emphasised the necessity for collective societal engagement, moral management and community-centric approaches in disaster preparedness, complementing technological interventions with social consciousness and institutional coordination. “True resilience emerges when technology, policy and community action converge. Platforms like this workshop play a critical role in aligning scientific capability with societal responsibility,” Raghav stated.Institute director Ok Ok Pant, deputy director U P Singh, and head of the division of earth sciences and workshop convenor, Sandeep Singh, additionally addressed the occasion.