PESHAWAR: The faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Peshawar, Thursday approved the first-ever four-year BS degree and two-year MSc programme in disaster management at the Centre of Disaster Preparedness and Management (CDPM) of the university. The faculty board met under the leadership of the dean of the faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences Prof Dr Farrukh Tufail. All the board members including the chairpersons, professors and directors of all the departments and the centres of the faculty attended the meeting.
Director of the CDPM Prof Dr Amir Nawaz Khan briefed the meeting about the proposed plan of the centre. The meeting also approved MPhil and PhD in the disaster management. Talking to The News, Dr Amir Nawaz said it was for the first time in the country as well as in South Asia that a formal bachelor and master degree programme in disaster management is being started.
He said the board of studies has already approved the programme. “Now it would be presented before the academic council, after which it would go to the syndicate and then to the senate and thus the bachelor and master degree programmes would be formally started,” he said.
He was optimistic that the programme would be started from the next session. Established in April 2001, the centre has been offering diploma in disaster management. Several training workshops in the disaster management have also been organised by the centre. Various national and international exhibitions on disaster management have also been arranged under the aegis of the centre to create awareness about disasters.The news.
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