District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 For Official Use Only DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, SOUTH 24 PARGANAS District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 Government of West Bengal Office of the District Magistrate, South 24-Parganas District Disaster Management Department Alipore, Kolkata- 700 027 An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Organisation : [email protected], : 033-2439-9247 District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 ~:CONTENTS:~ Chapter Particulars Page No. Need for the plan, scope of the plan and objective of the plan 6-7 Chapter-1 Organizational structures and committee of NDMA, SDMA 8 (Introduction) and DDMA Chapter-2 Process and Methodology adopted to develop DDMP 9-23 (Methodology Combined Management framework for Multi Hazard 24 for Action) Location, Area and Administrative Division 25 Administrative Map and Description of South 24 Parganas 26-27 Chapter-3 District Land and River of the District 27-32 (District Profile) Climate and Water Bodies 33 General Geomorphology and Drainage 34 Economy and Demography 35-40 Topographical Details- Periodical statistics 41-43 Roads and Railway Map 44 Sundarbans- a brief profile 45-47 Map of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve 48 Salient Guidelines, duties and responsibilities of Zonal sector Chapter- 4 49-50 officers (Standard Operating Procedure for Actions to be performed by all the Heads of line departments 50-62 Sub-divisional Flood/Cyclone /Tsunami Relief) Multi Hazard Disaster Management Plan- its objectives, types, 63-72 history of disaster Multi Hazard map of South 24 PGS 73 Action plan of Dist. Disaster Management & CD Dept.-2018 74-79 Disaster Management Plan of District Controller (F&S)-2018 80-83 Disaster Management Plan of Health-2018 84-99 Action Plan of West Bengal Fire and Emergency Service-2018 100-103 Action Plan of Animal Resource Development-2018 104-118 Action Plan of Dy. Director of Agriculture (Admin)- 2018 119-123 School safety Plan-2018 124-149 Action Plan of PHE Dept.-2018 150-153 Chapter- 5 A Scheme for Legal Services to Disaster Victims 154-158 (NALSA & SALSA) (Action Plans- Block wise Disaster Management Volunteer’s List 159-161 Emergency Contingency Plan, South 24 Parganas 162 2018 of South 24 Risk Assessment 163-164 Parganas ) Vulnerability Analysis 165-168 Mainstreaming Disaster Risk reduction into Development 169 process General overview and framework for pre, during and post 170-178 disaster activities Checklist for DMIC 179-181 Geographical Position of Helipads 182-183 Irrigation Division and their vulnerable areas 184-196 Existing flood shelter & Relief Go Downs 197-198 Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter (MPCS) under PMNRF, ICZMP 199-202 & NCRMP Contact details of Disaster Management Department and 203-250 Annexure associated stake holders District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 PREFACE Disaster Management Act, 2005 mandates for the development of District Disaster Management Plan for every districts of the country. The plan of today marks a shift from a mere response based approach to a more comprehensive Preparedness, Response and Recovery approach in order to negate or minimize the effects of several forms of hazards by preparing better. The differences in geographical characteristics and climate conditions changes the impacts and type of hazards in every district and also, within the district. In order to better deal with this, it necessitates making good assessment of the Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Capacities in different parts of the district. Finally, a very comprehensive Hazard, Vulnerability, Risks and Capacity Assessment (HVRCA) was conducted by the District Administration of 24 Parganas (South). Situated at the funnel shaped bay head in the eastern sea board of India, South 24 Parganas, the largest District of West Bengal is a home of more than 81 (eighty one) lakh people and hundreds of species of animals, birds and plants. Owing to its unique geographical locations, the entire Sundarban Biosphere reserve and 13 thickly populated riverine Blocks of the District are under constant threat of powerful norwester, Bay Cyclone, Tidal surges constant changes of courses by the numerous distributers in the active part of delta and obviously flood. The basin like Islands till date protected by long embankments which are very old and are being weakened everyday by the currents that scour at their dresses and tidal surges coupled with strong winds. It is basically a district of Islands interspersed by many streams and innumerable distributaries and fearfully wide tidal creeks. The district of South 24 Parganas is vulnerable to disasters - both natural and man-made. Contiguous to the district of Kolkata, it has a unique urban-rural continuum in its human settlements. At one end of the scale we have forty one wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and at the other end there are remote islands deep in the Sundarban. In between there are municipalities, blocks, villages and scattered hamlets. Keeping all this in mind it is necessary to prepare the Multi Hazardous Disaster Management Plan that would help in crystallizing our vision to combat any coming disaster. We have tried to present frequently required data, contact information to have a clear picture of requirement level of preparedness to combat any crisis. We have intended to be easily comprehensible and useable –we hope to have succeeded. I would like to my sincere thanks to Sri Shyamal Kr. Mondal, WBCS (Exe.), Addl. District Magistrate (Disaster Management), Smt. Sharmistha Ghosh, WBCS (Exe), Officer in Charge of District Disaster Management Department, Sri Krishnapada Raptan, District Disaster Management Officer, South 24 Parganas and Sri Sumanta Das, District Disaster Professional, South 24 Parganas who have worked in the background liaison between different departments arranging for meetings and also the Disaster Management Department of the Collectorate. However, in spite of these threats and weaknesses the people know that they will have to live with the disaster and they have the will force and unchanging determination to combat any disaster side by side with the administration and that is our main strength. We believe that it will fulfill its objective of acting as a ready reckoner and the best documents for managing disaster. (Y. Ratnakara Rao, IAS) District Magistrate South 24 Parganas District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT As a part of the ongoing programme under the overall supervision of the Department of Disaster Management, Government of West Bengal and supported by the United Nation Development Programme; it was imperative upon us to prepare a comprehensive District Disaster Management Plan. The plan envisaged to spell out proper guidelines to the various aspects of the Disaster Management Programme as well as to act as a ready reckoner and handy reference for the preparation of the Sub-division, Block, Gram Panchayat and Village level disaster management plans. It would also give the necessary inputs as to how to react to a disaster in case of line departments and to let out in clear terms the trigger mechanism to be adopted under any condition of sudden disaster. This year, keeping in view to prepare ourselves against of different types of disaster, we have prepared the Multi Hazardous Disaster Management. Hope this will be of assistance to those working for the mitigation of disaster in different spheres of society. [Shyamal Kr. Mondal, WBCS (Exe.)] Additional District Magistrate (Gen ) South 24 Parganas District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2018-19 Chapter 1: Introduction General Disaster threatens sustainable economic development worldwide. In the past twenty years, earthquakes, floods, tropical storms, droughts and other calamites have killed millions of people, inflicted injury, disease and caused homelessness and misery across the world. Disaster destroys decades of human effort and investments, thereby, placing new demands on society for reconstruction and rehabilitation. Disaster management thus, requires multi-disciplinary and proactive approach. The community, civil society organizations, media and the proverbial man on the street, everyone has to play a role in case such exigency occurs. Natural disasters like earthquake, land slide, flash-flood, flood drought and cloud burst affects life, property and environment and hampers the normal developmental processes. Need of the plan India in general is one of the most hazard prone countries in the world. 60% of the country is prone to earthquakes of moderate to high intensity, 40 million hectares is prone to floods, 5,700 km long coast is prone to cyclones and tsunamis and the whole of Himalayas are prone to landslides. The district of West Champaran in particular is one of the 312 Multi-Hazard Prone districts in India. As a result, it was important to develop a plan that improves district’s response to disasters while improving its ability to mitigate the disaster risks and increasing community’s resilience by implementing the preparedness plan. State is responsible for responding to disasters through its district level Incident Response Team for the disaster site, while Centre is responsible only in providing extended support or guidance or external resources and additional help as desired, in case of any major disasters on the request of support from the state. Thus, it was deemed important to put a plan in place for dealing with disasters in an organized way with all the stakeholders well aware of their role in responding or preparing for disasters. Scope of the plan The disaster planning process has evolved significantly and taken more importance in the last decade as a result of emergencies and disasters having a greater impact on government industry and agriculture and livelihoods.Today, organizations have an abundance of emergency planning resources and training options available to them. Cooperation between government and industry in the planning process is also high. Consequently, there presently exists an excellent opportunity for organizations to increase their level of preparedness & mitigation.