BHUBANESWAR: Fakir Mohan University Balasore has launched district level lightning monitoring and awareness programme by reaching almost every household in the district of Balasore with an aim to make the fatalities due to lightning zero.
In the first phase, the university has chosen 12 degree colleges as nodal centres of each block in Balasore. Through these centres and their NSS units, the university is trying to make the people aware by playing awareness chariots (Sachetanata Ratha) in the district.
Northern part of Odisha is one of the most lightning prone areas of the country due to its geographical condition and occupational structure. The region has reported many deaths due to lightning. Keeping this problem in mind, the university has started this awareness programme after signing a memorandum of understanding with the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
