F O R E W O R D जयन्त गंगोपाध्याय pUvaao-%tr saImaa rola NORTHEAST FRONTIER RAILWAY वररष्ठ मंडल संरक्षा अधिकारी Alipurduar Junction – 736123, West Bengal Jayanta Gangopadhyay BSNL: 03564 – 256151 (O), 256127 (R) Rly : 34704 (Office), 34705 (Res.) Sr. DIVL. SAFETY OFFICER FAX : 03564- 256151 (BSNL), e-Mail : [email protected] [email protected] From the Desk of Editor Disaster Management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. A disaster is the serious disruption of the functioning of a society, causing or threatening to cause, widespread human, material or environmental losses which render the affected community unable to cope using its own resources. Disasters are only disasters because they impact and affect the way in which we live. They can be caused by the impact of a natural occurrence on human beings or by human beings themselves. From the above definitions, it becomes apparent that it is incorrect to refer to "natural disasters", since natural phenomena in themselves are not disasters unless they impact negatively on populated areas. The Divisional Disaster Management – 2021 provides station-wise details which will be extremely useful in the event of serious accident for arranging quick evacuation of critically injured passengers to the nearest well equipped hospital in the region. I appeal to all the officers and staffs of the Division to go through this plan and familiarized themselves with their duties mentioned therein. Lastly, I request our readers to point out suggestion, if any, for the improvement and utility Divisional Disaster Management Action Plan – 2021. Dated : 1st December, 2020 (J.Gangopadhayay) Sr. DIVL. SAFETY OFFICER SHRI K.S.JAIN CHIEF PATRON DIVISIONAL RAILWAY MANAGER, N.F.RAILWAY/ALIPURDUAR JN. SHRI MANOJ KUMAR JINDAL PATRON ADDL. DIVISIONAL RAILWAY MANAGER, N.F.RAILWAY/ALIPURDUAR JN. SHRI JAYANTA GANGOPADHYAY CHIEF EDITOR SR.DIVISIONAL SAFETY OFFICER, N.F.RAILWAY/ALIPURDUAR JN. SHRI TAPAN KR. SAHA EDITOR ASSTT. DIVISIONAL SAFETY OFFICER, N.F.RAILWAY/ALIPURDUAR JN. SHRI KUNTAL MANDAL SAFETY COUNSELLOR (TFC)/APDJ SHRI DEBASISH ROY, STENO-I TO SR.DSO/APDJ SHRI ALOKE KR. MONDAL SAFETY COUNSELLOR (LOCO)/APDJ SHRI RAJESH KR. RAM SUB - EDITORS SAFETY COUNSELLOR (S&T)/APDJ SHRI RUPENDRA NARZARY SAFETY COUNSELLOR(ENGG)/APDJ SHRI SHIBU BARMAN SAFETY COUNSELLOR(ELECT)/APDJ SHRI PRABAL DUTTA SAFETY COUNSELLOR (C&W)/APDJ SYSTEM MAP OF APDJ DIVISION APDJ DIVISION – AT A GLANCE Division Started – 1969 (Jurisdiction) Gauge Section KM Raninagar (Excluding) – New Bangaigaon (Excluding) 217.81 Siliguri (Excluding) – Samuktala 172.12 Alipurduar Jn - Bamanhat 72.34 BG Fakiragram Jn. – Dhubri 66.81 New Cooch Behar – Golakganj 58.91 New Mal Jn. – Changrabandha 61.76 Y-LEG – Maynaguri Road 5.04 New Changrabandha - New Cooch Behar 67.10 Total = 721.89 Districts Served State District West Bengal Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar & Darjeeling. Assam Kokrajhar, Bangaigaon, Dhubri & Chirang. Number of Stations - 63 + 23 (D) Stations Number of Max speed stations BG – I RQJ (excluding) – NCB (Including) 15 110 KMPH BG-II NCB (excluding) –NBQ (Excluding) 13 110 KMPH BG – III SGUJ (Excluding) – SMTA (excluding) 17+3 (D) 100 KMPH APDJ (Excluding) – BXT 3 + 9 (D) 75 KMPH FKM (Excluding) – DBB 2+ 6 (D) 75 KMPH NCB (Excluding) – GKJ (Excluding) 4+ 1(D) 70 KMPH NMZ (Excluding) – CBD (Including) 6 + 3 (D) 100 KMPH NCBD (Excluding) – NCB (excluding) 3+ 1 (D) 100 KMPH SN Section wise “D” Class stations Number 1 Total “D” Class Stations in BG-I:- NIL 2 Total “D” Class Stations in BG-II:- NIL 3 Total “D” Class Stations in BG-III:- 03 4 Total “D” Class Stations in DBB- FKM Section:- 06 5 Total “D” Class Stations in NCB-GKJ Section:- 01 6 Total “D” Class Stations in APDJ-BXT Section:- 09 7 Total “D” Class Stations in NMZ-NCBD-NCB Section:- 04 8 Total “D” Class Stations in APDJ Division:- 23 SN Section wise “B”+ “SPL” Class stations Number 1 BG-I 14+ 01 (SPL) 2 BG-II 13 3 BG-III 17 4 APDJ-NCB-BXT 03 5 NCB-DBB 06 6 NMZ-NCBD-NCB 09 Total “B”+ “SPL” Class Stations in APDJ Division:- 63 INDEX SN ITEM PAGE NO. 1. What is disaster 1 2. Definition of a Disaster on Railways 2-3 3. Disaster Risk, vulnerabilities and mitigation 3-27 4. DM Plan – Basic of policy formulation on DM Plan 28-34 5. Disaster Communication system 34-41 6. Disaster Preparedness /availability of resources 42-44 7. Disaster responds a brief overview 44-46 8. Duties And Check List Of Action To Be Taken By Various Officials & Departments In Case 47-53 Of Disaster 9. Important note/letter of Railway Board 54-82 10. Media Management 83-86 11. Passenger Care 86-91 12. Photography, Videography and preservation of class at the accident site 91 13. Essential tents of successful accident management 92 14. Operating Department 93-94 15. Commercial Department 95-98 16. S&T Department 99-103 17. Mechanical Department 104-105 18. Engineering Department 106-108 19. Electrical Department 109-111 20. Medical Department 112-115 21. Security Department 116-118 22. Accounts Department 119-120 23. Personnel Department 121 24. Important Phone of Railway officers of APDJ Division 122 25. Phone Numbers of Safety Department, Cranes /Recovery Van 123 26. Phone Numbers of Press/Media, Journalists 124 27. Composition of SPART & BD Van, Important contact numbers of Fire in POL freight 125 trains, Forensic Officials, Bomb Squad 28. Important Phone Numbers of chief administration of NFR, CRS & Electricity. 126 29. Zonal and Divisional Disaster Management (Safelight and Emergency control) numbers. 127 30. Important contact numbers of NDRF. 128 31. Station wise Information – Facilities available at APDJ Division 129-192 32. State wise list of station for provision of FCT phone 193-194 34. Bomb detection/defuse squad, IOCL 195 35. SAFE OPERATIONS OF TRAINS INSIDE THE TUNNEL 196-201 WHAT IS DISASTER? – AN INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION The concept of a Disaster was not adequately and comprehensively defined on Indian Railways till the year 2005. It was accepted that a Disaster situation implies, on the railways, to cover only cases of serious rail/train accidents, caused by human/equipment failure, which may affect normal movement of train services with loss of human life or property or both. After the enactment of Disaster Management Act 2005, the broad principles of disaster for any department of the government changed to the concept of any incident which could not be handled with alone by that department i.e. if it was beyond the coping capacity of a particular department, the incident could be termed as a disaster. STRENGTHS OF THE RAILWAYS TO HANDLE A DISASTER: In handling disasters, Indian Railways is in a unique position as it has a number of strengths not available with many other departments of Government of India. These include: Railways‟ own Communication Network. Operating Control on each Division linked with each Station. Territorial Army Units. Uniformed force of RPF/RPSF Railways‟ own Medical Infrastructure Civil Defence Organization An army of Gangman spread out all over the Indian Railways. Scouts and Guides Dedicated Rescue/Restoration and Medical Equipment on Rails. Each of the above can be made use of to handle adversities depending upon requirement to handle the disaster. RAILWAY‟S SHORTCOMINGS TO HANDLE DISASTER: There are, however, a few inadequacies in the Railways own resources which are very essential for handling a specific type of Disaster as under: Absence of Tunnel rescue equipment – in case of collapse of or mishap in a Tunnel, expertise and related equipment on this aspect is lacking. Non-availability of trained divers for extrication of passengers and/or casualties (dead bodies and drowning/drowned passengers) from rolling stock fallen down in sea/river/lake etc. Non-availability of cranes operated from a ship/barge for lifting of the coaches/bogies from a water body. Ability to handle a CBRN Disaster and major fire. Limited resources to handle a terrorist attack on a train and/or a station, other railway premises etc. In such scenario Indian Railways seek assistance from NDRF/SDRF/Armed forces/ Navy/Government /Non-government agencies. Owing to the aforementioned shortcomings, the new definition of Disaster, as per Disaster Management Act 2005, and as adopted by Indian railways is apt to handle any type of disaster scenar 1 DEFINITION OF A DISASTER ON RAILWAYS Based on the definition of the Disaster Management Act 2005, Ministry of Railways has adopted the following definition of Railway Disaster: “Railway Disaster is a serious train accident or an untoward event of grave nature ■ either on railway premises or arising out of railway activity, 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 etc ■ necessitating large scale help from other Government/Non-government and Private Organizations.” The new definition of Disaster now extended to include natural and other manmade disasters. With the adoption of the above definition of Railway disaster it needs to be appreciated that not only a serious train accident may turn into a Railway disaster, if not handled and managed properly, there may be many more Railway related events which may not even involve human lives but may turn into disasters for which necessary prevention and mitigation measures are to be taken by the Railways beforehand. Zonal Railways will ensure that prevention, mitigation, preparedness, rescue and relief related issues covering all types of disasters affecting railway system are addressed and their details are also appropriately incorporated in their Disaster Management plans.