1 FLOOD CONTROL ORDER- 2019 DISTRICT, PANCHKULA 2 Flood Control Order-2013 (First Edition) Flood Control Order-2014 (Second Edition) Flood Control Order-2015 (Third Edition) Flood Control Order-2016 (Fourth Edition) Flood Control Order-2017 (Fifth Edition) Flood Control Order-2018 (Sixth Edition) Flood Control Order-2019 (Seventh Edition) 3 Preface Disaster is a sudden calamitous event bringing a great damage, loss,distraction and devastation to life and property. The damage caused by disaster is immeasurable and varies with the geographical location, and type of earth surface/degree of vulnerability. This influence is the mental, socio-economic-political and cultural state of affected area. Disaster may cause a serious destruction of functioning of society causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which executed the ability of affected society to cope using its own resources. Flood is one of the major and natural disaster that can affect millions of people, human habitations and has potential to destruct flora and fauna. The district administration is bestowed with the nodal responsibility of implementing a major portion of alldisaster management activities. The increasingly shifting paradigm from a reactive response orientation to a proactive prevention mechanism has put the pressure to build a fool-proof system, including, within its ambit, the components of the prevention, mitigation, rescue, relief and rehabilitation. Flood Control Order of today marks a shift from a mereresponse-based approach to a more comprehensive preparedness, response and recovery in order to negate or minimize the effects of severe forms of hazards by preparing battle. Keeping in view the nodal role of the District Administration in Disaster Management, a preparation of Flood Control Order is imperative. This order is prepared in reference to geographical situations and need to manage ill effects of the floods in the district, flood vulnerability, drainage system and flood protection schemes vis-a-vis flood action plan, exhaustive list of available resource inventory and directory of who’s who of the District. Incident Response System and District Flood Control Room has already been established, as well as front line departments of the district have also established Flood Control Room in their respective departments. Roles and responsibilities of each department have been identified so that situation of flood if occurs, could be tackled without any hassle. I am thankful to all the officers/officials for their sincere involvement and inputs for making this Flood Control Order, by giving their due efforts the preparation of this document. District Administration is well prepared to handle any eventuality due to flood for heavy downpour. I have full confidence in my people and officers/officials that they are capable of facing any challenge. May these efforts help the actual people for whom it is intended i.e. the victims of Disaster in Panchkula District. Dr. Balkar Singh, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula 4 Acknowledgments Thanks to all who generously gave advice, provided necessary help and input. Ramphal Kataria (DRO), Dev Raj (FRA) and Pooja (Computer Operator) contributed in collection of data and material for this document and preparation of the manuscript. Nature helped in devising the front page, structure and design of this Flood Control Order. 5 INDEX Chapter Page Chapter-1: Introduction 1. Geography of Panchkula 7-8 2. Administrative Strcuture 8 3. Irrigation pattern 8 4. Land use/land cover change in Panchkula district 8-9 5. Distribution of Rainfall 10-11 6. Detailed map of the district 11 Chapter-2 : Drainage System 1. Flood Inspection 12 2. Drainage and River map of the District 13 3. Patrolling 13 Chapter-3 : Flood vulnerability 1. Brief history of flood 14 2. Details of Flood Affected Villages 14-15 3. Members of planning committee and response branch 16 for District, Panchkula Chapter-4 : Flood Protection Schemes 1. Ongoing flood protection schemes in the district 17-21 (i) Flood protection schemes completed in the year 2018- 17-18 19 (ii) New Flood protection schemes for the year 2019-20 18-19 (iii) Dewatering equipment with Water Services 19 Department (iv) Ring Bundhs and Drains 20-21 2. Conservation, Harvesting and Water Management 21 3. Flood Preparedness by different departments 21-55 Chapter-5 : Flood Action Plan 1. Flood Control Room 56-60 2. Pre-flood inspection 60-61 Chapter-6 : Resource Inventory 6 1. List of flood equipment available within the district. 62 2. Dewatering equipment 63 3. NDRF 7th Battalion Team 63-65 4. JCB available in district 65 5. JCBs available with Private Suppliers 66 6. Dewatering pumps 66 7. Fire Equipments 66-67 8. Divers 67-68 9. Swimmers 69 Chapter-7 : Directory 1. District Administrative Directory 70-101 2. Directory of Revenue department 101-120 3. Directory of Panchayat department 120-126 Review and Evaluation 127 References 128 7 Chapter-1: Introduction 1. Geography of Panchkula Panchkula is a planned city and which is the Headquarter of the district. The other towns in the district are Barwala, Kalka, Pinjore and Raipur Rani.Besides these towns, there are 259 villages in the district. It forms a part of an adjoining area to the Chandigarh, Mohali and Zirakpur. It is approximately 4 km (2.4 miles) southeast of Chandigarh, 105 km (65 miles) southwest of Shimla, 44 km (27 miles) from Ambala and 259 km (162 miles) northeast of New Delhi, the national capital. It is a part of the Chandigarh capital region or Greater Chandigarh. The Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula metropolitan region collectively forms a Chandigarh Tricity, with a combined population of over 2 million. Panchkula district has a sub-tropical continental monsoon climate having, hot summers, cool winters, good monsoon rainfall. It has great variation in temperature (-1 °C to 43 °C). Sometimes winter frost occurs during December and January. The district also receives winter rains from the western disturbance. The rainfall is mostly received in the monsoon. Morni hills constitute the highest point of the district as well as of Haryana. The Ghaggar is the only perennial river, which is very shallow outside of the monsoons. The mountains and hills of Kasauli are clearly visible from Panchkula. The Kaushalya river rises in the Shivalik hills on the border of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, and flows through Panchkula district and confluences with Ghaggar river near Pinjore just downstream of KaushalyaDam.Generally, the slope of the district is from north east to south west and in this direction, most of the rivers/streams rain-fed torrents flow down and spread much gravel and pebbles in their beds. Only the Sirsa river, in Kalka Tehsil flows towards the north-west. The soils in the district are mainly light loam.The underground water in the district is generally fresh and suitable for domestic and irrigation purposes. The underground water level is generally high in the southern parts and low in north and north- east which is hilly tract. The district lies in the Himalayas boundary fault zones and earthquakes of moderate to high intensity have occurred in the past.Districtlies in 30.695202 latitude and 76.854172 longitude. GPS coordinates of the district are 30° 41' 42.7272'' N and 76° 51' 15.0192'' E. The mean sea level of the district is 337 meters. The total population of the district is 319,398 out of which 173,557 are males and 145,841 are females. Panchkula is the least populous district of Haryana. Rural-urban population distribution is 44:56in the district. 8 2. Administrative Structure Sub Division Name Area (Acre) Village Tehsil/Sub Block Municipal Tehsil Corporation Panchkula 40444 52 Panchkula Barwala Panchkula 23441 30 Barwala* Raipur Rani 30262 45 Raipur Rani Morni 8909 14 Morni* Kalka 37853 112 Kalka Kalka Total 140909 253 5 4 1 *Sub Tehsil 3. Irrigation pattern The district is mainly drained by the river Ghaggar and its tributaries. A small patch of northwest part of the district is drained by north westerly flowing Sirsa nadi, as its tributaries east-west direction before joining Sirsa nadi, which is tributary of Sutlej river. Panchkula district is bestowed with rich water resources, both surface as well as ground water resources. The ground water is major sources of irrigation in the district. Net irrigated area is 80Km2 whereas, gross irrigated area 180 Km2. Percentage of gross area irrigated to total cropped area is 91 4. Land use/land cover change in Panchkula district Population of peripheral areaof Panchkula has increased about five timesduring last three decades. In 1971, population of peripheral controlled areawas 84,143 persons inhabiting in 154 villages out of which ruralpopulation was 73.92 percent against 26.08 percent of urban population. In1981, the population ofperipheral area increased to 124,604 persons with adecadal growth rate of 48 percent whereas the urban population has increasedto 30.78 percent over the corresponding previous decade. In 1991, populationfurther increased to 222,346 persons with a growth rate of 78.6 percent. In thelast two decades, increase in 9 population of peripheral area was almost 3 timeswhich may be considered substantial increase by any planning norms. This huge population increase in the area is attributed to establishment ofvarious special government projects like HMT, Chandimandir Cantonment, ITBPComplex, Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory, Panchkula, Urban Estate, andnearness to Chandigarh which experienced tremendoussocio-economic and physical development of infrastructure. These factorstogetherlyacted as centripetal force to attract huge number of migrantsfrom neighbouring regions.Broad landuse categories which includeagricultural and allied activities, built-up, reserve forest, vegetal cover, specialarea, water bodies, mining and slums were identified as the key factors that influenced the stark changes in this area. It is the fact that agricultural land has been decliningcontinuously and is being replaced by the built up area.