Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 27 Nov: Prof Durgesh Pant, Director General, UCOST, mentioned at a press convention right here, today, that the Uttarakhand State Council for Science & Technology (UCOST) is organising a World Summit on Disaster Management (WSDM 2025) and the 20th Uttarakhand State Science & Technology Conference (USSTC 2025) on 28–30 November 2025 at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun. These landmark occasions, being organised within the ecologically delicate Himalayan area, will deliver collectively world consultants, policymakers, scientific establishments, innovators, youth leaders, response businesses and neighborhood representatives to strengthen India’s scientific ecosystem and catastrophe resilience framework.
For the World Summit on Disaster Management (WSDM 2025), the Chairman of the Inaugural Session will probably be Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, whose management has emphasised the significance of catastrophe preparedness, local weather resilience, and community-driven scientific consciousness. The Chief Guest on the Inaugural Ceremony will probably be Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State within the Prime Minister’s Office; Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space. Dr Singh’s participation underscores India’s dedication to science-driven resilience, space-based monitoring, superior early warning methods, and transformative catastrophe governance.
Governor Lt General Gurmit Singh (Retd) would be the Chief Guest on the Valedictory session.
It is price noting that, on 28 November, the Chief Guest on the inaugural session of 20th Uttarakhand state science and expertise convention 2025, which will probably be held on the Silver Jubilee Convention Centre, Graphic Era University, will probably be Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, former Union Education Minister, and former Chief Minister, Uttarakhand. The keynote speaker will probably be Dr DK Aswal, Member, NDMA.
Prof Durgesh Pant added {that a} key spotlight of USSTC 2025 is the introduction of a number of prestigious awards aimed toward selling scientific excellence and neighborhood management. These embody the Uttarakhand Vigyan Shiksha Prasar Samman Puruskar, recognising excellent contributions to science communication and scientific outreach; the Bhagirath Puruskar, honouring exemplary work in catastrophe administration, local weather motion, and neighborhood resilience; and the Uttarakhand Young Women Scientist Award, celebrating the achievements of rising ladies researchers who’re contributing considerably to scientific innovation and sustainable growth. These awards symbolize UCOST’s dedication to nurturing scientific expertise, selling gender fairness, and strengthening grassroots scientific engagement throughout the state.
Another main new initiative is Uttarakhand’s First State-Level Science & Technology Premier League 2025, designed to take scientific consciousness, local weather literacy, innovation, and catastrophe preparedness to each village of Uttarakhand. Teams from all 13 districts will compete in scientific quizzes, innovation shows, disaster-response challenges, and climate-problem–fixing duties. Inspired by the imaginative and prescient of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, this Premier League seeks to organize the subsequent era of “Science Ambassadors” and “Climate Resilience Leaders”.
The World Summit on Disaster Management 2025, themed “Strengthening International Cooperation for Building Resilient Communities,” is constructed across the 5E Framework—Engage, Educate, Enable, Empower, and Excel. The Summit will tackle the advanced challenges posed by local weather change, together with rising frequencies of floods, landslides, forest fires, heatwaves, cloudbursts, glacial hazards, and different multi-hazard threats affecting India and the Himalayan area. It goals to determine a world platform for sharing data, expertise, governance fashions, and community-based resilience methods.
Six main Plenary Sessions will anchor the Summit: Resilient Infrastructure with CDRI; Water Conclave, focusing on Glacial lake outbursts, cloudbursts, rivers, and glaciers; Safeguarding Humanity, addressing public well being emergencies; Guardians of the Himalayas, highlighting neighborhood voices and indigenous data; Multiple Hazards, masking forest fires, landslides, earthquakes, floods, and cloudbursts; and Resilience Through Traditional Knowledge Systems, exploring Sanskrit, Sanskriti, Parampara, and the deep ecological knowledge of India’s civilizational heritage.
Additionally, twelve Special Technology Sessions (STS) will discover superior applied sciences, worldwide partnerships, sustainable financing, coverage innovation, and region-specific resilience methods. These embody the Ambassadors’ Policy Roundtable on catastrophe threat cooperation; the Educators’ Conclave with NIDM; sustainable financing and company management with IICA; regional cooperation with the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation and CBRI; expertise management; DRF Stack for preparedness and restoration (AON); area applied sciences, the Sikkim governance mannequin; carbon ecosystem strengthening; the function of media; innovation for DRR; and Himalayan Corridor resilience initiatives.
More than 20 workshops, interactive boards, and particular occasions will probably be organized, together with SHE for STEM—Women in Resilience; biodiversity and biotechnology for local weather resilience; water high quality monitoring and water literacy; multi-hazard mitigation; inclusive innovation for senior residents; and crowd administration for collective security. Special occasions such because the S&T Premier League (Grassroots Edition), Youth Leadership Forum, Women in Resilience Initiative, and Voice of Communities will guarantee inclusive participation and illustration from various sectors and age teams.
The Summit will host an Innovation & Technology Showcase, with participation from varied state and central authorities organisations, startups, scientific establishments and innovators working on early warning methods, space-based monitoring, AI-driven local weather analytics, and community-level catastrophe applied sciences. Practical demonstrations, rescue simulations, and capacity-building actions will probably be carried out by nationwide forces together with NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, BRO, NIM, NCC, NSS, and SSB, enhancing hands-on catastrophe preparedness for college kids, communities and stakeholders.
WSDM 2025 and 20th USSTC 2025 mark a big milestone in Uttarakhand’s journey towards scientific empowerment, local weather resilience, and innovation-led growth. Together, these occasions intention to construct a succesful, conscious, and future-ready Uttarakhand—outfitted with sturdy scientific foundations, resilient communities, empowered youth and globally aligned methods for catastrophe threat discount and sustainable progress.
Also current on the press convention had been Amit Pokhriyal, Manager, PR, UCOST, Dr DP Uniyal, Organising Secretary and Joint Director, UCOST, Dr Prahlad Adhikari, Organising Secretary, WSDM, and Puneet Singh.