Government of Karnataka Chikkaballapur District Disaster Management Plan 2020-21 District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Chikkaballapur Government of Karnataka Chikkaballapur District Disaster Management Plan 2020 - 21 Prepared by District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Chikkaballapur Smt. R Latha I.A.S Office of Deputy Commissioner Chairman of Disaster Management Chikkaballapur District, Chikkaballapur & Deputy Commissioner Phone: 08156-277001 Chikkaballapur District E-mail:
[email protected] Preface The District Disaster Management Plan is a key part of an emergency management. It will play a significant role to address the unexpected disasters that occur in the district effectively. The information available in DDMP is valuable in terms of its use during disaster. Based on the history of various disasters that occur in the district, the plan has been so designed as an action plan rather than a resource book. Utmost attention has been paid to make it handy, precise rather than bulky one. This plan has been prepared which is based on the lines of National Disaster Management Plan 2019 and Karnataka State Disaster Management Plan 20-21. While preparing this plan, most of the issues, relevant to crisis management, have been carefully dealt with. Plan Comprises of Understanding the Risk, Preparedness, Mitigation, Capacity Development, Disaster Risk Reduction, Rehabilitation and Build Back Better. Efforts have been made to collect and develop this plan to make it more applicable and effective to handle any type of disaster. Chikkaballapur District has Geographical area of 4254 sq km which has covered most of the dry/ wet lands and facing every year by Drought all over the district for consecutive of about 8 years out of 10 years, while not all natural calamities can be predicted and prevented.