Vadodara: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the state has emerged as a petrochemical hub of the country even after the devastating earthquake in 2001 had caused a massive damage to its infrastructure.
"After devastating earthquake in 2001 which caused a huge damage to life and property, every one thought that Gujarat would not be in a position to stand up. But Gujarat proved them wrong and developed chemical and petro industries to become a petrochemical hub in the country," Modi said.
He was speaking after inaugurating the Asia's state-of-the-art Fire Safety & Disaster Management Studies College at Navgama, about 45 km from here.
Modi claimed that Gujarat was first state in the country to frame Disaster Management Act and equipping local bodies with fire fighting equipment.
"Gujarat government is creating awareness among school students who are imparted training in how to deal with emergency fire management," he said.
Affiliated with the Fire Science Academy, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, the facility is Asia's first training institute which has oil fired zero discharge props. The institute is set up in collaboration with IGNOU to impart the highest quality training in the fields of fire fighting and protection, crisis and disaster management, rescue, hazardous materials management, incident command systems and instructor training.
$4.15 billion Checkmate Group also has a stake in the entity.
"We intend to establish institute for dealing with incidents like air crash and fire situation in the aircraft in future for which we are trying to get a Boeing aircraft to be parked at the campus of this institute," Checkmate MD Vikram Mahurkar said on the occasion.
The firm provides industrial security and safety services to companies.
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