FLOOD CONTROL ORDER- 2020 DISTRICT, PANCHKULA Page | 1 ➢ 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) Page | 2 ➢ Flood Control Order-2019 (Seventh Edition) ➢ Flood Control Order 2020 ( Eaigth Edition ) Preface A change of proactive management of natural disaster requires an identification of the risk, the development of strategy to reduce that risk and creation of policies and programmes to put these strategies into effect. Risk Management is a fundamental facility geared to the evolution of schemes for reducing but not necessarily eliminating.. For flooding events, there is a need to calculate the probability or likelihood that an extreme event will occur and to establish and estimate the social, economic and environmental implications should the event occur under existing conditions. Flood-prone areas of the district have been identified. A participatory process has been outlined, leading to the development of an acceptable level of risk. Measures can be evaluated and implemented to meet this level. Floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disaster. India is one of the highly flood prone countries in the world. Around 40 millions hectare land is flood prone in the India as per the report of National Flood commission. Floods cause damage to houses industries, public utilities and properties resulting in huge economic losses, apart from loss of lives. Though it is not possible to control the flood disaster totally, by adopting suitable structural and non structural measure, the flood damages can be minimized. For planning any flood management measure latest, reliable, accurate timely information is required. Also such calamity spouse itself with serious devastation to transportation, communication channel, supply of electricity etc. Hence, in the immediate after math any calamity, the surrounding environment becomes dangerous and safe due to its exposure to toxic and harmful objects. World as a whole experienced the devastation caused by endemic spread of Covid-19 and this district is not exception to it. To fight the challenge posed by this dreaded disease, district administration has evolved a strategy by involving different stakeholders. An effective system of incident command, quarantine facilities, isolation locations, containment areas and establishment of shelter homes for the needy was developed to effectively manage the situations arisen and out of this endemic. This experience will defiantly help the district administration in dealing with any disaster, if occurred in future. The learning of this experience have been incorporated in this Flood Control order. District Flood Control Room will be established, as well as front line departments of the district will also establish 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 problem. 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. Mukesh Kumar Ahuja, IAS Page | 3 Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula Acknowledgments Thanks to all who generously gave advice, provided necessary help and input: Ramphal Kataria (DRO), Anita Thakur, Project Officer (Disaster Management), Dev Raj (FRA), Pardeep Kumar and Shalu (Computer Operators) contributed in collection of data and material for this document and preparation of the manuscript. Original design of the front page and structure was prepared by Nature for this Flood Control Order. Page | 4 INDEX CHAPTERS Page Chapter-1: Introduction 1. Geography of Panchkula 9 2. Administrative Structure 10 3. Irrigation pattern 10 4. Land use/land cover change in Panchkula district 10-11 5. Distribution of Rainfall 12 6. Detailed map of the district 13 Chapter-2 : Drainage System 1. Drains 14 2. Details of drains in the district 15 3. Patrolling 15 4. Drainage and river map of district, Panchkula 16-17 Chapter-3 : Flood vulnerability 1. Brief history of flood 18 2. Details of flood affected villages 18 3. Traffic aragement/diversion in case of flood 19 Chapter-4 : Flood Protection Schemes 1. Flood protection schems in the district 20-22 i.Completed schemes in the year 2019-20 20 ii. Ongoing flood protection schems of the district 21 iii. New flood protection schems for the year 2020-21 21-22 2. Conservation, water hervesting and management 22 Chapter- : 5 Flood Action Plan 1. Pre-flood inspection 23 2. Bundhs and drains 23 i. Bundhs 23 ii. Drains 23 3. Flood preparedness by different departments 25-28 i.Water services department 25 ii. Municipal Corporation 25 iii. Public Helth Engineering Department 25-26 Page | 5 iv. HSVP 26 v. Health and Family Welfare 26-27 vi. Food and Civil Supplies 27 vii. District Red Cross Society 27 viii. Animal Husbandry & Dairying 27 xi. Agriculture 28 Chapter : 6 Flood Control Room 1. Flood Control Room 29-30 i.Central Control Room 29 ii. Flood Control Rooms of different departments 29-30 Chapter-7 : Institutional Mechanism 1. District Disaster Management Authority 31 2. District Disaster Management Committee 31 3. Incident Response System 32-42 i.Detail of IRS for Panchkula 33-34 ii. Roles & responsibilities of IRS 34-42 iii. Members of planning committee and response branch for District, Panchkula 42 iv. Search & Rescue Team 43-46 v. Evacuation Plan 47-48 4. Liaisons with important departments 48-49 i.Military Station, Chandimandir 48 ii. National Disaster Response Force 48 iii. Ministry of Home Affairs 49 iv. Contract Number of Adjoining Districts/UT/States 49 v. Contact Number of Helplines 49 vi. System of Incident Commanders utilized during COVID-19 50-51 Chapter-8 : Resource Inventory ( Human and Equipment ) 1. Equipment 52-55 i.Dewatering equipment with Water Services Department 52 ii. Dewatering pumps 52 iii. Equipment with Red Cross 52 iv. Flood equipments with Revenue Department 53 v. Flood equipments with Municipal Corporation 53 Page | 6 vi. CSSR equipments with NDRF 53-54 vii. Mountaineering Rescue equipments (NDRF) 54 viii. Flood equipments (NDRF) 54 ix. JCB available with government department 55 x. JCB available with private suppliers 55 xi. Fire equipment available with Municipal Corporation 55 2. Human Resources 56-60 i.Divers 56 ii. Swimmers 56 iii. Medical Stores 24X7 57 iv. Medical Mobile Unit 57-58 v. Medical Store for home delivery 58-59 vi. Home delivery of groceries and essentials 59 vii. Home and online departmental store 59-60 Appendix i. District Administration 61-62 ii. Police 63 iii. Revenue 63 iv. Development & Panchayat 63 v Market Committee 64 vi. HSVP 64 vii. Municipal Corporation 64-65 viii. Directory Revenue Department 65-75 ix. Directory of Panchayat Department 75-79 x. Directory of WCD 71-80 xi. Volunteers 80-84 ➢ Medical Practioners 80-81 ➢ Nurses 82 ➢ Paramedics 82-84 xii. NGO 84-86 xiii. RWA 86-87 Review and Evaluation References Page | 7 Page | 8 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 Kaushalya Dam.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.