Sindh, NDMA agree to adopt technology to deal with natural disasters.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt Gen Inam Haider have agreed in their meeting at CM House that modern technology would be adopted for disaster management.

The CM said that most of the natural disasters were weather related, therefore their forecast could be made much before their occurrences through technological help. He added that this would help the provincial and federal governments to make a contingency plan much before the disasters.

Chairman NDMA LT Gen Inam Haider said that his organization has developed close coordination with international agencies working to forecast weather and its related impacts. He added that the NDMA itself was installing weather-related latest equipment and gadgets to assess the weather and patterns of the disasters during the last few decades.

He told the CM that the provincial disaster management...

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