The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is organising a workshop in New Delhi today on 'Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness'. The objective of the workshop is to showcase technologies and products developed indigenously by the organisation, which can be readily adopted or customized for disaster management.<br/><br/>The Defence Ministry said in a release that the use of these technologies will help in reduction of socio-economic and environmental impact of disasters. It said, DRDO has in the past contributed to the various disaster management operations like Tsunami disaster in 2004, Uttarakhand flash floods in 2013 and Jammu and Kashmir floods last year. It said, as DRDO is developing many state-of-the art technologies, some of these could be adopted for future disaster management solutions.