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ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY Editorial Board 1. Chief Editor : Shri B. P. Swain, Chief Safety Officer 2. Associate Editors : Shri P.K. Jena Dy. Chief Safety Officer (Engg.) : Shri C. R. Panda, Dy. Chief Safety Officer (Traffic) : Dr. R. R. Naik Dy. Chief Safety Officer (Mech.) : Shri P. K. Mohapatra Dy. Chief Safety Officer (Electrical) : Shri S. K. Sahoo, Senior Safety Officer (S & T) 3. Members : Shri S. Baliarsingh, Safety Counsellor (MP) Shri B. Sardar, Safety Counsellor (C&W) Shri M. Tripathy, Chief TI (Ruling) Shri L. D. Sahoo, TI (Satistics). Shri R. K. Khatua, Safety Counsellor (Engg.) Shri P. K. Panda, Safety Inspector (Optg.) Shri M.M. Mohapatra, Safety Counsellor (S &T) Shri B. B. Panda, Safety Counsellor (Elect.). -: ****** :- 1 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY 2 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY 3 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY INDEX Sl. Chapter No Subjects Page No 1. Order 5 2. Abbreviation 7 3. Introduction 9 4. Chapter-1 Disasters 10 5. Chapter-2 Disaster Preparedness- Availability of Resources 12 6. Chapter-3 Disaster Preparedness- ARTs / ARMEs 14 7. Chapter-4 Disaster Response- An Overview 18 8. Chapter-5 Disaster Response- Instant Action Team 19 9. Chapter-6 Disaster Response- First Responders 26 10. Chapter-7 Disaster Response- Officers at Division & HQ 29 11. Chapter-8 Disaster Response-Co-Ordination Centers 40 12. Chapter-9 Disaster Response-Assistance From Adjoining Divisions / Zones 45 13. Chapter-10 Site Management Plan-1 48 14. Chapter-11 Site Management Plan-II 52 15. Chapter-12 Site Management Plan-III 62 16. Chapter-13 Passenger Management 67 17. Chapter-14 Media Management 69 18. Chapter-15 Fire and Other Accident Management 72 19. Chapter-16 Preparedness for Disaster Management 79 20. Chapter-17 Cyclone Management 81 21. Chapter-18 Flood Management 88 22. Chapter-19 Earth Quake Management 94 23. Chapter-20 Land / Hill slide 96 24. Chapter-21 Terrorism Disaster 97 25. Chapter-22 Chemical Disaster 99 26. Chapter-23 Chemical (Terrorism) Disaster 103 27. Chapter-24 Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Disaster 104 28. Chapter-25 Biological Disaster 105 29. Chapter-26 Disaster inTunnel/Deep Cutting or in Water Body 106 30. Chapter-27 Crisis Management 106 31. Chapter-28 Strike Management 108 32. Chapter-29 Disaster Communication Management 113 33. Chapter-30 Extract of East Coast Railway Schedule of Power. 119 34. Annexures List of Annexures (Sl.No.1 to 37) 123 - 184 4 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) No. ERB-I/2002/24/44 New Delhi, dated 17-09-2002 ORDER The Ministry of Railways have decided to constitute a high level committee to review the diasaster management system over Indian Railways and give recommendations for strengthening and streamlining the same. This committee will consist of the following : i) Member Mechanical, Railway Board - Convenor ii) Member Traffic, Railway Board - Member iii) Director General/Railway Health Services - Member iv) Director General / Railway Protection Force - Member v) Additional Member (Budget), Railway Board - Member 2. Exutive Director / Safety, Railway Board, will be the Secretary of the Committee. 3. The terms of refernece of the Committee are :-- (i) To review the existing Disaster Management System over IR related to train accidents and natural calamities and to suggest improvemnets. (ii) To identify the technological and managerial inputs in order to quicken the pace of relief and rescue operations. (iii) to institute a standing arrangement with other Central Ministries, State Governments and Armed Forces to enable quick and smooth restoration operations without any legal or procedural hurdles. 4. The Committee is expected to give its recommendations in two months Necessary secretarial assistance (one computer literate P.S. and one L.D.C.) would be provided to Executive Director (Safety) during the tenure of the Committee. (R.R. JARUHAR) Secretary / Railway Board 5) MEMBER OF THE HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT 1) S. Dhasarathy, Member Mechanical & Convenor 2) M.C. Srivastava, Member Traffic. 3) Vijayalakshmi Viswanathan, Financial Commisisoner. 4) Dr. K. Suresh, Director General/Railway Health Services. 5) Dr. A. K. Pandey, Director General/Railway Protection Force. 5 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY FEW ABBREVIATIONS USED 6 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY 7 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY Research Centre 8 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY INTRODUCTION Earlier Indian Railway used to handle Disaster mainly related to train accidents. The situations are changed. Disaster Management Act. - 2005 promulgated and it covers wider range of Disaster like terrorism natural calamities. In Sept.2002 the High Level Committee suggested to prepare Zonal / Divisional Disaster Management Plan, which was brought in action in 2003 vide Railway Board’s Safety Directorate letter No. 2003/Safety-I/6/2 dated 29th September 2003 (laid down the requirement of Zonal Railway’s Disaster Management Plan) as follows: All Divisions and Zonal Railway HQ (including Metro Kolkata & Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) must devise their disaster management plan, if not already done taking into consideration the resources available with them, their neighboring divisions/Zonal Railways, Civil Authorities, industrial units and Armed Force bases located in their territory. This would enable the Divisions/ Zonal Railways to muster the entire local resources in case of a major disaster/natural calamity. Zonal Railways Disaster Management plan should integrate all divisions and also to take into consideration adjacent Railways’ network. PREPARATION OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN The Disaster Management Plan must inter-alia include “who is responsible for what activities in detail”. i. Preparation and implementation of disaster management plan is the responsibility of concerned General Manager/Addl. General Manager/CSO. ii. Authority to order ART/ARMV/Break Down crane - Chief Mechanical Engineer/Chief Motive Power Engineer (Running & Loco)/ Sr. Divisional Mechanical Engineer/Divisional Mechanical Engineer, etc. are authorized to order Break Down crane, ART & ARMV. iii. Senior most Railway Officer at the site of the accident shall be designated as Site Manager. iv. Management of Rescue Operations - Primarily Mechanical and Medical Departments. Assistance to be provided by all Railway-men (irrespective of their department) as needed. v. Relief operations including care for the dead - Commercial, Medical, Personnel & RPF Departments. vi. Communication network – Telecommunication Department. vii. Crowd control and law & order at site – RPF Department. viii. State Police clearance for restoration - RPF Department. ix. Rolling stock - Mechanical Department. x. Fixed infrastructure like Track, Over Head Equipment, Signaling system, etc. - Departments concerned. xi. Maintenance of SPART / ART & SPARMV / ARMV Rolling Stock/Break Down cranes including rail- cum-road and road mobile emergency vehicle etc. - Mechanical Department. xii. Maintenance of equipment kept in SPART/ART/SPARMV/ARMV for rescue and restoration operations - Departments concerned. xiii. Media Management at site - a. Site Manager shall be the chief spokesman at site and can be assisted by the Branch Officers concerned, if needed. b. PR/Commercial Department to look after the media needs at site. xiv. Checklist for the officers & supervisors must be issued in the form of a pocket booklet indicating DOs and DON’Ts for the benefit of: a. First official reaching the site of accident b. Senior most officer at the site. c. Divisional/HQ control organization. d. Station Manager/Station Master. The Disaster Management Plans must be reviewed and updated in the month of January every year. 9 ZONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2015 EAST COAST RAILWAY (Chapter – I ) DEFINITION OF DISASTER : Railway Board Vide letter No 2003/Safety(DM)/6/2 Pt. dated 06-01-09, defined Railway Disaster in the following way, “Railway Disaster is a serious train accident or an untoward event of grave nature, either on the Railway premises or arising out of Railway activity in that area, due to natural or man-made causes, that may lead to loss of many lives and/or grievous injuries to a large number of people, and/or severe disruption of traffic, necessitating large scale help from other Government/Non-government and Private Organizations”, Salient Features of Disaster Management Act 2005: Disaster Management Act 2005, has been introduced with a view to provide effective management of disasters and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The following provisions are available in this Act.:- 1. Formation of NDMA with Prime Minister as Chairperson and nine(09) other members and an Executive Committee with Secretaries to Govt. of India as members. 2. NDMA shall have powers to lay down policies, guidelines, planning and co-ordination and evaluation & monitoring for Disaster Management. There shall be a National Plan drawn up for disaster management in the whole country. 3. Similar state DMAs with Chief Minister as Chairperson and eight(08) other members shall be formed having power to lay down policies, guide lines and planning & monitoring at state level. There shall be a state executive committee which Chief Secretary as Chairperson and four other secretaries. A state DM plan shall