The DG UNESCO, Ms. Irina Bokova and the Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr. Shailesh Nayak signed the Letter of Intel between ESSO-MoES and UNESCO for cooperation in the field of Reducing Disaster Risks and Capacity building in Earth Sciences, in the presence of the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, in New Delhi on November 24, 2014