The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI 2021) has started on March 17. PM Modi addressed the conference.
Key Points of PM Address
- PM Modi said that there is a need to foster a global ecosystem of innovation in view of the challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic.
- COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that in an inter-dependent and inter-connected world, no country- rich or poor, in the east or west, north or south- is immune to the effect of global disasters.
- On one hand, the pandemic has shown us how impacts can quickly spread across the world, and on the other hand, it has shown how the world can come together to fight a common threat.
- Any infrastructure systems like shipping lines, digital infrastructure, aviation networks-cover the entire world, and the effect of disaster in one part of the world can quickly spread across the world.
- He stressed that cooperation is a must for ensuring the resilience of the global system.
About ICDRI 2021
- ICDRI 2021 will be held from March 17 to 19, 2021.
- ICDRI 2021 is an interactive virtual conference that follows International Workshops on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) held in 2018 and 2019.
- The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure is the annual conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in association with member countries, organizations, and institutions with an aim to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Some of the Keynote speakers of ICDRI 2021 are Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hardeep Singh Puri, Nirmala Sitharaman, P K Mishra (Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of India), Prof. K VijayRaghvan (Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India), Dame Meg Taylor (Secretary-General, Pacific Islands Forum), Anil Kakodkar (Former-Chairman Atomic Energy Commission) and Douglas Wilbert Slater (Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM for SIDS session for Caribbean region).
