Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 62 - 73
Competency of the Infantry Troops of the Nepalese Army in Disaster Response
Authors
Shrijan Bahadur Malla1, Shuichi Hasegawa2, Ranjan Kumar Dahal3
1Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396, Japan.
2Department of Safety Systems Construction Engineering, Kagawa University, Takamatsu City, Japan.
3Central Department of Geology, Tribhuvan University, Kritipur, Nepal.
Received 7 April 2019, Accepted 27 April 2019, Available Online 28 June 2019.
- DOI
- 10.2991/jracr.k.190703.002How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Nepalese Army; Infantry troops; Disaster response; Competency; Knowledge; Preparedness
- Abstract
Although the Nepalese Army’s regular infantry troops are the tools of disaster response their competency at times becomes questionable. Their disaster response’s soft skill knowledge, technical skill knowledge and preparedness activities along with the perception of senior army officers have been analyzed. As per the result the disaster response competency of such troops needs improvements. The organization should focus on competency building activities. Besides, the perception of senior army officers is positive and convincing towards disaster response engagement.
- Copyright
- © 2019, The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Shrijan Bahadur Malla AU - Shuichi Hasegawa AU - Ranjan Kumar Dahal PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/28 TI - Competency of the Infantry Troops of the Nepalese Army in Disaster Response JO - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response SP - 62 EP - 73 VL - 9 IS - 2 SN - 2210-8505 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jracr.k.190703.002 DO - 10.2991/jracr.k.190703.002 ID - Malla2019 ER -