Nepal Landslide Society organizes

Seminar on

“Impact of Landslides on Infrastructures in Nepal”

 Nepal Landslide Society organized a half-day international seminar on September 23, 2003 in Greenwich Village Hotel from 15:00 PM to 20:30 PM. The Organizing Committee consisted of:

1. Mr. Achyuta N. Bhandary                            Coordinator

2. Dr. Vishnu Dangol                                      Joint Coordinator

3. Mr. Arun Man Pradhan                                Member

4. Mr. Narayan singh                                        Member

5. Mr. Indu Sharma Dhakal                              Member

6. Mr. Jagadiswar Nath Shrestha                   Member Secretary

The seminar organized jointly with ICIMOD was participated by more than 60 geoscientists, civil engineers environmentalists and other experts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, The Netherlands and Nepal.

 The seminar consisted of two sessions: inauguration and technical. The inaugural session was chaired by Mr. Achyuta Nanda Bhandary, President of NELS. Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada, Member of the Planning Commission was the chief guest. The technical session was chaired by Prof. Dr. Madhav Prasad Sharma. In the seminar four papers were presented. NELS presented the results of brief investigations of recent landslides along Naubise-Mugling-Narayanghat-Hetauda-Kathmandu Road sections. Mr. Naoki Omoto, Expert on Sediment-Related Disaster Mitigation, DMSP/JICA, described the project on landslides undertaken by Disaster Mitigation Support Programme Project. Dr. Luc Boerboom of International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, the Netherlands, introduced the objectives and achievements of IGUDM Training Course. Lekh Nath Pokharel, Department of Narcotics Control and Disaster Mangement, Ministry of Home, HMG/Nepal presented a paper on “Disaster Management System in Nepal”.