Air Commodore Nitin Sathe, Chairman of Air Force Selection Board, Dehradun, delivers a lecture on disaster mangement at Uniosn World School in Dehradun on Tuesday.

Tribune News service

Dehradun, November 16

Air Commodore Nitin Sathe conducted a session on disaster management for students of class X to XII of Unison World School on Tuesday evening.His session revolved around one of his two published books and an enthralling incident of his life— disaster management after Tsunami 2004— that he experienced at Bande Aceh, near Andaman and Nicobar Islands.Sathe described the initial signs, destruction and aftermath of the Tsunami that struck the coasts of Indonesia on December 24, 2004. Apart from this, he informed the students about the actions that were taken to revive life on the island and the resurrections over two years. Small and impressive lessons were propagated all throughout his speech, leaving a few eyes welled up with tears and a few minds thoughtful about the unfortunates in life. Towards the end of his lecture, Sathe spoke about ‘Predict, Prevent and Prepare-the three Ps of Disaster management’.Air Commodore Sathe is an alumnus of the National Defense Academy, Khadakwasla, and is at present the president of the Air Force Selection Board, Dehradun.