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The mega mock drill conducted on 15 .02.12 has raised awareness that when earthquake strikes it would be required that both citizens and authorities are working in unison to minimise the damage. The drill was carried out at following locations in District:-

1) Sanjay Camp, Chanakya Puri

2) B R Camp, Race Course

3) Janta Camp, Near Pragati Maidan

4) Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market

5) Khan Market Metro Station

6) Yashwant Place,

7) Housing Complex Kali Bari Marg

8) Mohan Singh Place

9) Doordarshan Bhawan

10) Palika Following Departments participated in this mega exercise organized in New Delhi District on 15 th February, 2012 in all the incident sites: -

1. Civil Defence Volunteers 2. Delhi Police 3. PCR 4. Traffic Police 5. CATS and SJAB 6. NDMC (Civil) 7. NDMC (Fire) 8. DTC

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9. NDMC (Water Supply) 10. Delhi Fire Services 11. Food and Supply Dept 12. NDMC (Education) 13. NDMC (Electricity) 14. BSES 15. MCD 16. MTNL 17. NDRF Two relief centres were identified and made operational during the drill. They are as under:-

S. No. Name of Relief Centre Location of Evacuees

a) 100 shifted from Sanjay NP Middle School, Dharam Marg, Kitchner Camp, Chankya Puri. 1. Road, New Delhi b) 50 shifted from B. R. Camp, Race Course.

2. NP Bengali Girls Senior Sec. School, Gole a) 20 shifted from Janta Market, New Delhi Camp, Pragati Maidan.

b) 30 shifted from Housing Complex, Kalibari Marg.

Total No. of Dead : 10

Total No. of Major Injury : 36

Total No. of Minor Injury : 64

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Hospitals involved:

1. RML Hospital 2. Lady Hardinge Medical College 3. Central northern railway Hospital 4. Charak palika Hospital 5. Primus Super Speciality Hospital

The Prominent scenario which were enacted during the mega mock -drill were:- a. House Collapse due to Earthquake b. Fire as a consequence of Earthquake. c. Cracks in buildings due to Earthquake.

As per the scenario all the important call were made by Landline Phones available at the incident site and all the incident commanders used Wireless for communication with District Level EOC.

Observers:-

Following observed the drill in New Delhi District:-

1. Major Nanda Vallabh, Indian Army. 2. Sh. J. P. Yadav, Commandant, NDRF, 8 th Battalion. 3. Smt. Preeti Baizal, NDMA 4. Dr. Angelie Quatra, Philianthrope (NGO)

The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), was made operational at Disaster Management Centre, NDMC, Humayun Road, New Delhi.

The District Level Debriefing was conducted at 2:30PM at Disaster Management Centre, NDMC, Humayun Road, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner (New Delhi). Following points were discussed:-

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1. At the outset Deputy Commissioner (New Delhi) appreciated the efforts of all departments concerned and invited the observers and Dr. Brig. (Retried) B. K. Khanna, to give their views and observations regarding the Mega Mock Drill.

2. Brig. Khanna, emphasized that there is a difference between man made disasters and natural disasters as in case of natural disasters first responders take time to reach the incident site. He informed that during the drill Delhi Police, Civil Defence and NDRF performed very well. Further he added that during sounding of siren people were running and evacuating and DCH was not exercised. He further added that community has been sensitized about evacuation through this drill but they still need to know that after evacuation they stand at some safer place outside the building. 3. Sh. J. P. Yadav, Commandant, 8th Battalion NDRF, said that the drill was a success. And crowd control has not been a problem during evacuation as the people had already been informed about the drill. Further he added that Delhi Traffic Police did a great job by quickly creating space for emergency vehicles.

4. Mrs. Preeti Baizal, NDMA, congratulated everyone involved in the drill for its successful conductance. She raised a point that there are 2 objectives of Mock Drill:- a) To measure the capability of ESFs and b) To check awareness level of community

She added that the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), at DMC, NDMC, Humayun Road was working very well and the hotlines were in place.

5. Dr. Angelie Quatra, thanked Deputy Commissioner (New Delhi) for making war level preparation for Mega Mock Drill. She further informed that all agencies were prompt and arrived in time at Khan Market Metro Station. However, the response of DMRC was very poor.

6. Sh. Omvir Singh, DCP, New Delhi District applauded and encourage the district administration for conducting Mega Mock Drill at no. of sites simultaneously. Further he added that for such a big exercise small things do not matter, we are atleast now aware what a major disaster could be and how we have to respond. He said that fully achieved the target of awareness, which is required urgently for community. He further, suggested that the message could be carried forward by discussing the disasters in peer group, in family, in departments and in offices. We will ensure that every community member is fully sensitized and has desire to be prepared. He informed that Delhi Police was lacking in 100 no. response which would be rectified as early as possible.

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7. Major Nanda Vallabh, Indian Army informed the house that during the real earthquake the devastation would be much higher and we need to be prepared for that. He congratulated NDMA, DDMA (New Delhi) and Departments for their coordination and cooperation to make drill successful. He further, added that there was thorough professionalism in district administration to conduct the drill.

Some of the important lessons learnt are as follows:-

(i) Need for State-of-the art emergency operation centres at district level with redundancy.

(ii) Common communication system for all the stakeholders.

(iii) State-of-the-art equipment and systematic inventory of resources.

(iv) Need for adequate number of ambulances.

Location 1 – Sanjay Camp,

S. No. Agency Time

1. PCR (1612) 11:37 AM

2. PCR (0209) 11:37 AM

3. PCR (4784) 11:37 AM

4. PCR (6973) 11:37 AM

5. PCR (4646) 11:37 AM

6. PCR (6854) 11:38 AM

7. PCR (6979) 11:39 AM

8. PCR (7051) 11:40 AM

9. PCR (4570) 11:40 AM

10. PCR (4646) 11:46 AM

11. PCR (4784) 11:48 AM

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12. PCR (0209) 11:50 AM

13. PCR (7042) 11:52 AM

14. CATS 12:46 AM

15. Delhi Fire Service 11:40 AM

16. Fire Dept. (NDMC) 11:40 AM

17. Civil Dept. (NDMC) with JCB 11:49 AM

18. NDMC Sewerage 11:50 AM

19 DTC Buses (2) 11:40 AM

20 Delhi police 11:32 AM

Location 2 – Janta Camp, Pragati Maidan

S. No. Agency Time

1. Delhi Police 11:35 AM

2. PCR (2) 11:32 AM

3. PCR (3) 11:35 AM

4. CATS 11:38 AM

5. Delhi Fire Service 11:41 AM

6. Civil dept.(NDMC) 11:45 AM

7. Electricity Dept. (NDMC) 11:35 AM

8. DTC 11:55 AM

9. Disaster Management Centre, MCD 12:10 PM

Location 3 – Housing Complex Kalibari Marg

S. No. Agency Time

1. PCR (1CJ 6983) 11:35AM

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2. PCR (1CM 4569) 11:37AM

3. PCR (1CF 4649) 11:37AM

4. PCR (1CJ 6985) 11:39AM

5. PCR (1VA 5379) 11:39AM

6. PCR (1CM 4569) 11:39AM

7. PCR (1CJ 4649) 11:39AM

8. PCR (1CJ 6985) 11:40AM

9. Delhi Fire Service (1G B 7072) 11:50AM

10 Delhi Police 11:25AM

11. CATS No Response

Location 4 – Palika Bazaar

S. No. Agency Time

1. Delhi Police Present at the site

2. PCR (5971) 11:34 AM

3. PCR (5380) 11:39 AM

4. PCR (5073) 11:44 AM

5. PCR (5971) 11:45 AM

6. PCR (5780) 11:45 AM

7. CATS 12:01 PM

8. SJAB 11:54 AM

9. Delhi Fire Service 11:37 AM

10. Civil dept. (NDMC) 12:13 PM

11. Electricity Department (NDMC) Present at the site

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12. Traffic Police 11:37AM

13. Fire Department (NDMC) 11:37 AM

Location 5 – Khan Market Metro Station

S. No. Agency Time

1. Delhi Police 11:30AM

2. Traffic Police Present at the site

3. PCR (DL ICJ 4664) 11:34 AM

4. PCR (DL ICJ 7096) 11:34 AM

5. Delhi Fire Service 11:35 AM

6. Fire Department (NDMC) 11:35 AM

7. CISF Dog Squad 11:35 AM

8. Water Supply (NDMC) 11:40 AM

Location 6 – Mohan Singh Place

S. No. Agency Time

1. CATS 11:37 AM

2. Delhi Fire Service 11:37 AM

3. Delhi Fire Service 11:37 AM

4. Fire Department (NDMC) 11:41 AM

5. PCR 11:45 AM

6. PCR 11:46 AM

7. PCR 11:46 AM

8. PCR 11:54 AM

9. PCR 11:58 AM

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10. PCR 12:00 Noon

11. SJAB 11:54 AM

12. Delhi Police 11:51 AM

13. Water Supply (NDMC) 11:57 AM

Location 7 – Yashwant Place, Chanakya Puri

S. No. Agency Time

1. Delhi Police (DL 1C J 4650) 11:42 AM

2. Delhi Fire Service (DL 1G B 6734) 11:42 AM

3. PCR (DL 1C J 3842) 11:40 AM

4. PCR (DL 1C J 6932) 11:42 AM

5. Fire Department (NDMC) Present at the site

6. PCR Ambulance (DL 1A 1634) 11:43 AM

7. Traffic Police 11:40 AM

8. Delhi Police 11:41 AM

Location 8 – Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market

S. No. Agency Time

1. PCR 11:36AM

2. PCR 11:36 AM

3. PCR 11:37 AM

4. Traffic Police 11:38 AM

5. Fire Department (NDMC) 11:41 AM

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