For Official Use Only GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 1 | P a g e Government of West Bengal Office of the District Magistrate, South 24 Parganas District Disaster Management Department New Treasury Building, (1st Floor) Alipore, Kolkata-27 . An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Organisation : [email protected] , : 033-2439-9247 2 | P a g e CONTENTS Chapter Particulars Page No. I Need for the plan, scope of the plan and objective of the plan 6 Organizational structures and committee of NDMA, SDMA and 6 (Introduction) DDMA II Process and Methodology adopted to develop DDMP 7 (Methodology for Action) Location, Area and Administrative Division 24 III Administrative Map and Description of South 24 Parganas 25 District (District Profile) Land and River of the District 27 Climate and Water Bodies 32 General Geomorphology and Drainage 34 Topographical Details- Periodical statistics 39 Roads and Railway Map 42 Sundarbans- a brief profile 43 Map of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve 46 IV Salient Guidelines, duties and responsibilities of Zonal sector 47 officers (Standard Operating Actions to be performed by all the Heads of line departments 48 Procedure for Sub- divisional Flood/Cyclone /Tsunami Relief) Multi Hazard Disaster Management Plan- its objectives, types, 62 V history of disaster Multi Hazard map of South 24 PGS 72 (Action Plans-2020 - 21 Action plan of Dist. Disaster Management & CD Dept.-2020 73 of South 24 Parganas ) Disaster Management Plan of District Controller (F&S)-2020 78 Disaster Management Plan of Health-2020 82 Action Plan of West Bengal Fire and Emergency Service-2020 88 Action Plan of Animal Resource Development-2020 92 Action Plan of Dy. Director of Agriculture (Admin)- 2020 107 School safety Plan-2020 112 Action Plan of PHE Dept.-2020 136 A Scheme for Legal Services to Disaster Victims 140 (NALSA & SALSA) Block wise Disaster Management Volunteer’s List 146 Emergency Contingency Plan, South 24 Parganas 149 Checklist for DMIC 166 Geographical Position of Helipads 169 Irrigation Division and their vulnerable areas 171 Existing flood shelter & Relief Go Downs 178 Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter (MPCS) under PMNRF, ICZMP & 180 NCRMP Contact Details Contact details of Disaster Management Department and 183 associated stake holders SOP of Sealdah GRP 208 List of Heritage Buildings 258 Plan of Mock Drill & Training for 2020-21 259 Procurement of Machinary/ equipments 259 3 | P a g e PREFACE Disaster Management Act, 2005 mandates for the development of District Disaster Management Plan for every districts of the country. The plan of today marks a shift from a mere response based approach to a more comprehensive Preparedness, Response and Recovery approach in order to negate or minimize the effects of several forms of hazards by preparing better. The differences in geographical characteristics and climate conditions changes the impacts and type of hazards in every district and also, within the district. In order to better deal with this, it necessitates making good assessment of the Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities in different parts of the district. Finally, a very comprehensive Hazard, Vulnerability, Risks and Capacity Assessment (HVRCA) were conducted by the District Administration of 24 Parganas (South). Situated at the funnel shaped bay head in the eastern sea board of India, South 24 Parganas, the largest District of West Bengal is a home of more than 81 (eighty one) lakh people and hundreds of species of animals, birds and plants. Owing to its unique geographical locations, the entire Sundarban Biosphere reserve and 13 thickly populated riverine Blocks of the District are under constant threat of powerful norwester, Bay Cyclone, Tidal surges constant changes of courses by the numerous distributers in the active part of delta and obviously flood. The basin like Islands till date is protected by long embankments which are very old and are being weakened everyday by the currents that scour at their dresses and tidal surges coupled with strong winds. It is basically a district of Islands interspersed by many streams and innumerable distributaries and fearfully wide tidal creeks. The district of South 24 Parganas is vulnerable to disasters - both natural and man-made. Contiguous to the district of Kolkata, it has a unique urban-rural continuum in its human settlements. At one end of the scale we have forty one wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and at the other end there are remote islands deep in the Sundarban. In between there are municipalities, blocks, villages and scattered hamlets. Keeping all this in mind it is necessary to prepare the Multi Hazardous Disaster Management Plan that would help in crystallizing our vision to combat any coming disaster. We have tried to present frequently required data, contact information to have a clear picture of requirement level of preparedness to combat any crisis. We have intended to be easily comprehensible and useable –we hope to have succeeded. I would like to my sincere thanks to Sri Shyamal Kumar Mondal., WBCS (Exe.), Addl. District Magistrate (Disaster Management), Sri Soumyabrata Banerjee, WBCS (Exe), Officer in Charge of District Disaster Management Department and Sri Bamapada Kundu, District Disaster Management Officer, South 24 Parganas who have worked in the background liaison between different departments arranging for meetings and also the Disaster Management Department of the Collectorate. However, in spite of these threats and weaknesses the people know that they will have to live with the disaster and they have the will force and unchanging determination to combat any disaster side by side with the administration and that is our main strength. We believe that it will fulfill its objective of acting as a ready reckoner and the best documents for managing disaster. (Dr. P. Ulaganathan, IAS) District Magistrate South 24 Parganas 4 | P a g e ACKNOWLEDGEMENT As a part of the ongoing programme under the overall supervision of the Department of Disaster Management, Government of West Bengal and supported by the United Nation Development Programme; it was imperative upon us to prepare a comprehensive District Disaster Management Plan. The plan envisaged to spell out proper guidelines to the various aspects of the Disaster Management Programme as well as to act as a ready reckoner and handy reference for the preparation of the Sub-division, Block, Gram Panchayat and Village level disaster management plans. It would also give the necessary inputs as to how to react to a disaster in case of line departments and to let out in clear terms the trigger mechanism to be adopted under any condition of sudden disaster. This year, keeping in view to prepare ourselves against different types of disaster, we have prepared the Multi Hazardous Disaster Management. Hope this will be of assistance to those working for the mitigation of disaster in different spheres of society. [Shyamal Kumar Mondal , WBCS (Exe.)] Additional District Magistrate (Gen ) South 24 Parganas 5 | P a g e Chapter I: Introduction Disaster management is a synergic approach where all the stakeholders should act in a collective way. District Disaster Management Cell is the coordinating unit within the District which connects all the line Departments in the Pre – During and Post Disaster Situation. South 24 Parganas is such a District in the State which covers both Urban as well as revirine Sunderban Islands where life and livelihood of the population is different. Organizational Structures and Committee of NDMA, SDMA and DDMA: The Sendai Framework is a 15-year; voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and other stakeholders. It aims for the following outcome: The substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries. 6 | P a g e Chapter II Methodology for Action Process and Methodology Followed National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has developed an indicative template to frame and process District Disaster Management Plan. District Disaster Management Authority, 24 Pargans (South) is working to develop the plan in a more inclusive manner. The term ‘inclusive’ points to a wider community outreach, greater ownership by district’s administrative officers and institution based focus to address safety issues. Here, in South 24 Parganas, the process also included Civil Society Participation in consultation with District Inter Agency Group, District Child Protection Unit and other stakeholders who are directly working with vulnerable sections like Children, Women and Differntly abled population. Last year in the District piloted projects like Child Protection in Emergency, Nurtition in Emergency, Risk Informed Gram Panchayet Planning and Child Risk Impact Analysis in selected blocks of the Districts were implemented in collaboration with the GO NGO model. The DDMP process is thereby bringing legitimacy to the entire process. The entire process was divided into three phases as Predisaster activities, during disaster activities and post disaster activities which were mainly focused on the following parameters: Disaster Preparedness Disaster Risk Reduction Hazard, Vulnerability, Risks