District Disaster Management Plan
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District Disaster Management Plan Introduction:- In recent years India has been visited by very serious natural disasters like cyclones earthquakes floods droughts etc causing videspread loss of life and property videspread destruction caused by cyclones in Orrisa earthquakes in Gujrat are the recent examples of the natural disasters. Disaster is an event which threatens the whole of society and its management implies that a mechanism is in place. Which will enable a total and effective response to offset its harmful affects .Thus total and effective response mechanism must subsume the coordinated response of the entire governmental system and the whole of the civil society. By its very definition therefore Disaster Management can not be a quick fix mechanism it implies meticulous planning and coordination between various role players to prevent disaster and to mitigate their impact whenever they occur. The District Disaster Management Plan has the following essential parts:- 1) Essential detail of the district and its vulnerability to various disasters with Historical perspective and current data. 2) Response plan including off-site plan if an industry is located in the district 3) Prevention and mitigation plan. 4) People's mobilization and community preparedness plan. 5) Contingency plan for assisting the neighboring districts in distress. The District Disaster Management Plan takes into account resources available with various departments for meeting any kind of disaster, resources available with all District level NGO's military and Para military forces stationed in the District and their proper co-ordination. A disaster has generally three stages i.e. pre-disaster stage, disaster stage and post disaster stage. In the pre disaster stage ground work is carried out in order to assess the likely-hood of any impending disaster assessing the inventory of resources available in order to tackle a disaster including support required from Governmental and non Governmental Organizations in the disaster stage .Disaster Management Plan is put into place and resources are deployed as per the Disaster Plan. The continuous monitoring is carried out on day to day basis. In the post disaster stage the after effects of a disaster have to be tackled which includes control of epidemics disposal of dead bodies and animal carcasses and reconstruction of roads/bridges/pathways etc.All these three stages shall be taken care of in the District Disaster Management Plan prepared for District Faridkot with respect to the anticipated disaster. ANTICIPATED DISASTERS IN THE DISTRICT:- a) Floods k) Urban fires b) Cyclones l) Oil spill c) Heat wave and Cold Wave m) Festival related disasters d) Droughts n) Air road and rail accidents e) Thunder and lightening o) Village fire f) Earthquakes g) Epidemics h) Pest attacks i.) Cattle epidemics j) Food poisoning Part -1 District Profile:- District Faridkot was created in August 1972 which then comprised of Moga, Shri Muktsar Sahib and Faridkot sub Divisions. This District was further trifurcated during November 1995 and now it consists of Faridkot and Jaito sub divisions only. The District has 171 villages (including seven un-inhabited villages) and three Municipal Councils of Faridkot, Kotkapura and Jaito having a total population of 5.51 lacs. On the basis of previous record and information available through different sources , it has been observed that no major natural disaster occurred in the jurisdiction of the present Faridkot District in the last 30 years .Even during floods in September/October 1988 and July 1996,the district was not seriously affected Some damage occurred to crops in low lying areas and Katcha/unsafe houses in the district due to heavy rains in the past .However some problems were faced in the past which were managed by the District Administration with the help of Nagar Councils and Gram Panchayats. On the whole, as per the past history, the district is not flood prone and has not experienced any major natural disaster in the past. Part- II Since this district does not have any big industrial area therefore part II with respect to response plan including off-site plan has not been taken into account. Part III Prevention and mitigation plan in respect of each anticipated disaster shall be as below:- A. Floods: District level flood control committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot. It has the following members: Sr. No. Designation Officer 1 Senior. Supdtt.of Police, Faridkot. 2 Addl Deputy Commissioner, (D) Faridkot. 3 Sub Divisional Magistrate, Faridkot 4 Sub Divisional Magistrate, Kotkapura 5 Sub Divisional Magistrate, Jaito 6 Asstt.Commissioner (General) Faridkot 7 District Revenue Officer, Faridkot. 8 Tehsildar, Faridkot. 9 Tehsildar, Kotkapura. 10 Tehsildar, Jaito 11 Executive Engineer, Plan Roads, Faridkot. 12 Executive Engineer, Drainage Faridkot 13 Executive Engineer, Drainage Ferozepur 14 Executive Engineer, Public Health (RWS) Faridkot. 15 Executive Engineer, Public Health (GW) Muktsar 16 Executive Engineer, P.W.D, (B & R) Provincial Division, Faridkot 17 Executive Engineer, Canal Faridkot 18 Executive Officer, Municipal Counsil, Kotkapura. 19 Distt Development and Panchayat Officer, Faridkot. 20 B.D.P.O Faridkot/Kotkapura, Jaito. 21 Divisional Forest officer, Muktsar 22 Chief Agricultural officer, Faridkot 23 Dy. Director Animal Husbandary, Faridkot. 24 Distt. Food & Supplies Controller, Faridkot. 25 Secretary Red Cross, Faridkot 26 D.M, Markfed, Punsup, F.C.I, Warehousing, Faridkot. Punjab Agro, Pungrain. 27 Secretary, Market Committee, Faridkot, .Jaito, Kotkapura and Sadiq 28 Civil Surgeon, Faridkot 29 Medical Supdtt,G.G.S Medical College & Hospital ,Faridkot. 30 Distt Health Officer, Faridkot 31 Secretary , Regional Transport Authority, Faridkot 32 Asstt. Director Youth Services, Faridkot 33 Co-Ordinator N.Y.K, Faridkot 34 Distt Commander P.H.G, Faridkot 35 Distt. Mandi Officer,Faridkot 36 Deputy Registrar Co-Operative Societies, Faridkot 37 DET, Telephones, Faridot & S.D.O, Telephones, Faridkot /Kotkapura. 38 Xen. Pb.Water Supply & Sewerage Board, Moga & S.D.O, P.W.S & S, Kotkapura. 39 D.P.R.O Faridkot (Additional charge of till with DPRO, Ferozepur) The Committee meets generally in the months of April/May and takes stock of the situation Flood preparedness of each Govt. Department is reviewed and the emergent flood protection works which need special repair or new construction to be carried-out latest by 30th June are approved. The District Flood Control Room is set up in the Office of Deputy Commissioner , Faridkot. Having four digit toll free Telephone No 01639-250338 under the charge of District Revenue Officer Faridkot. It is made operational from 18 June till 30 September under normal circumstances Various activities undertaken before the floods are as bellows:- STEPS REQUIRED TO BE TAKEN BEFORE THE FLOODS:- 1 Identification of flood prone areas. 2 Warning system from Bhakhra and Pong Dam Reservoirs in case of floods /rains 3 Flood Signals 4 Setting up of Flood Control Rooms 5 Issuing of flood warning 6 Inspection of Flood Protection works Role of Irrigation Department and its requirement of additional funds for flood protection 7 and drainage work 8 Repair/inspection of Flood equipment 9 Sites for Relief Camps 10 Personnel for Relief Camps 11 Arrangement for food and other essential commodities 12 Medical facilities 13 Veterinary care 14 Drinking Water 15 Transport 16 Community preparedness 17 Assistance from Punjab Police/RAP 18 Help from Army authorities STEPS TO BE TAKEN DURING FLOODS:- 1 Immediate evacuation 2 Setting up of Relief Camps 3 Handling Relief 4 Reports to the State Headquarters 5 Monitoring of Flow of water at Critical points 6 Funds for Relief Camps 7 V.I.P visits STEPS TO BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER FLOODS :- 1 Disposal of Dead Bodies and Carcasses 2 Pumping out of water from low lying abadies 3 Special Girdawari 4 Funds for Relief 5 Disbursement of Relief STEPS TO BE TAKEN FOR RECONSTRUCTION:- 1 Closure of Relief Camps 2 Restoration of infrastructure 3 Reorganization for good work 4 Feed back for future Most of the damage was caused in Faridkot District in 1988, 1996, 2002 due to heavy rains because this area is not in the catchments areas of rivers. Certain measures are to be taken to reduce disaster due to floods/heavy rains. The Main objectives of various flood preparedness measures are:- 1 Minimizing the loss of human lives in floods 2 Minimizing the loss of live stock. 3 Minimizing the loss to property and infrastructure 4 Minimizing ill affects on the health of effected population 5 Bringing normality in human activity soon after the floods To achieve the above objects, different tasks are to be performed by different Government Departments and other agencies before during and after the floods each Department's role and responsibilities have to be clearly identified and action plan needs to be drawn up by each department for close coordination between the various Departments/Agencies, Close coordination is required at the District Headquarter as well as at the Tehsil Headquarters .Deputy Commissioner will Co-ordinate the work at the District Headquarters SDMs are to Co-ordinate all activities at the Sub Divisional headquarters and actually face the situation. Some of the important measures required to be taken before the floods, during the floods and after the floods have been outlined above. The Major role during the floods is of the drainage and public health department. The different departments are also assigned duties as under:- The Executive Engineer ,Drainage ,Faridkot will be responsible to Drain out water in cases there are some floods / heavy rains in the low lying localities .The E.O ,M.C Faridkot ,Kotkapura and Jaito will assist him 2. SETTING UP OF DISTRICT AND TEHSIL FLOOD CONTROL ROOMS :- The Flood control room at the Headquarter and Tehsil's will be established in the district would start functioning from 1st June round the clock A daily and weekly reports on prescribed proforma containing flood situation would be sent to the Govt.