The
week starting from 17th was really a busy one, as a UN team was
scheduled to visit and understand how the UN Disaster Management Team (UNDMT)
that I lead at the State of Uttarakhand has performed over the last eight
months. Number of meetings had to be fixed with several senior officers and a
separate larger meeting with NGO and Corporate representatives. The team
arrived on 19 Feb noon and there were eight meetings scheduled for the day with
the six member UN team divided into two sub-groups. When the day was over at
7.30 pm, it brought me so much of satisfaction as almost every officer, NGO and
Corporate with whom the UN team interacted spoke about the great support they
have received by way of coordination, information, quality and several
additional supports. And doing it under a single umbrella of UNDMT is again the biggest gain! The UN
Team delightedly gave us a well laid out banquet at The Kalsang, a Tibetan
restaurant on Rajpur road that gives some wonderful dishes from Tibet, Nepal,
China, Japan and Korea. On 20th morning, we had a totally internal
meeting between the UN team and me along with all the team members. The meeting
went off well and at the end everyone expressed satisfaction over the way the
UNDMT support has moved forward, and the new benchmarks set by the team. The
UNDMT mission in Uttarakhand is expected to be completed on 31 March 2014.
Kudos to all the team members!
