patna the state government following the directive of union agriculture ministry has decided to create an interdisciplinary multidepartmental and multipurpose calamity management cadre comprising 300 government employees and officials the 11th finance commission had recommended the creation of cmc in all the statesthe proposed cmc will consist of employees and officers from water resources minor irrigation health public health engineering road construction animal husbandry agriculture mines and geology urban development labour transport food and civil supply rural development home and personnel and administrative reforms departments besides 20 trained persons from the a n sinha institute of social studies patnathe relief and rehabilitation commissioner in separate communications to the commissioners of all the departments concerned as well as director a n sinha institute has urged them to send the list of employees of their respective department and organisation at the earliestthe selected employees will be imparted training in calamity management before being pressed into relief operation the trained employees will be assigned special task during calamitiesthe employees and officials selected for cmc will be paid fixed honorarium from time to time they would however receive salaries from their parent departmentsthese employees will be imparted special training every year to update their knowledge on disaster management besides making them mentally tough to undertake relief work on war footing the training would also help them know each other well facilitating their working as a team the fund for these training programmes will be released from the calamity relief fundwith regard to the composition of the cmc sources in the relief department said that while 50 officers and employees will be selected from the personnel and administrative reforms department one hundred employees including 20 from fire brigade service 40 constables and 40 homeguards will be taken from the home departmentthe health department according to relief department sources will release 20 doctors and 30 nurses while water resources and minor irrigation departments will release 30 civil engineers for the proposed cadrethe road construction department will place the services of 50 employees including 20 engineers with the cmc while urban development department will place the services of 10 of its engineers with itsimilarly the rural development department will release 10 engineers while the public health engineering department will release 20 of its staff for the cmcthe animal husbandry department and energy departments will release the services of 25 staff including 15 veterinarians and 20 staff including 10 engineers respectively while the rural development department will release the services of 10 engineersthe agriculture department will place the services of 10 scientists and field officials while mines department will place the services of 10 mining engineers with the proposed cadre the transport labour and food and civil supply departments will also release the services of 10 employees each for the cmc