National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) NMHS Annual Progress Report – Pro forma Kindly fill the NMHS Annual Progress Report segregated into the following 11 segments, as applicable to your project nature and outcomes. 1. Project Information 2. Project Site Details 3. Project Activities Chart w.r.t. Timeframe [Gantt or PERT] 4. Financial and Resource Information 5. Equipment and Asset Information 6. Expenditure Statement and Utilization Certificate (UC) 7. Project Beneficiary Groups 8. Project Progress Summary (as applicable to the project) 9. Project Linkages (with nearby Institutions/ State Agencies) 10. Additional (publication, recommendations, etc.) 11. Project Concluding Remark Please let us know in case of any query at: [email protected] Page 1 of 6 NMHS Progress Report (Period from 31 March 2017 to 31 December 2018) 1. Project Information Project ID: NMHS/2016-17/MG14/07 Sanction Date: 31 March 2017 Project Title: Developing Disaster Resilience Action Plan through GIS and Prioritizing the Actions for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction for Urban Agglomerations of Shillong and Gangtok BTG: Sustainable Management of Land & Water Resources PI and Dr Ajit Tyagi, Senior Advisor, Integrated Research and Action for Affiliation Development (IRADe), New Delhi-110017. Email: [email protected]; (Institution): [email protected]. Mobile: 9313982396 Name & Mr Rohit Magotra, Deputy Director, Integrated Research and Action for Address of the Development (IRADe), New Delhi-110017. Email: [email protected]. Co-PI, if any: Mobile: 9871613840 Structured Methodologies have been developed for flood hazard mapping, Abstract - seismic hazard mapping, landslide hazard zonation, and for detailing the development of geospatial database at 1:4000 scale. The document current year detailing the methodologies developed has been attached in progress : Annexure 1. Procurement of satellite images (Worldview-2/3) has been done for the two project cities Gangtok and Shillong. Extraction of building footprints and roads using Worldview-2/3 images for both the project cities completed. Vetting and Ground Truthing of maps for Gangtok has been done. Development of land use maps for both the project cities is in progress. Development of baseline spatial database is in progress. Stakeholders’ workshop was conducted in Shillong on 12 June 2018. Proceedings of the Workshop is attached as Annexure 2. Capacity building of students of Dept. of Environmental Studies, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong was carried out for conducting the ground surveys to assess the impact of urbanization on increasing the vulnerability of people to disasters, through in- person lectures, and remote skype sessions. In addition, applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for disaster management was demonstrated to them through an invited lecture titled “Developing Disaster Resilience Action Plan using GIS and Prioritizing Actions for Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Agglomerations of Shillong” by Dr Mohit Kumar on 30 August 2018. A questionnaire has been developed indigenously for assessing the impact of urbanization on the vulnerability of the cities to natural disasters through community-based surveys. The questionnaire is Page 2 of 6 attached in Annexure 3. Survey and data collection through questionnaire in 7 wards of Gangtok Municipal Corporation has been completed. Through survey, urbanization induced vulnerable areas have been identified in ward 3 and 4. GPS coordinates of vulnerable areas have been recorded. A ground truthing exercise was conducted in Gangtok during 19-22 November 2018 to validate the maps prepared; and for collection of secondary information related to engineering properties of soil, bearing capacity, adequate foundation depth required, capacity of the major storm water drainage etc. A draft template has been developed for the action plan. Awareness to the participants and public through counselling and mock drill exercises was carried out in Gangtok. A stakeholders’ list has been prepared for the two project cities separately. A paper titled “Disaster Resilience Assessment in Himalayan Cities: Shillong and Gangtok” has been prepared and submitted to NMHS “National Seminarcum-Monitoring Workshop”. A copy of the paper is attached in Annexure 4. A project brochure was prepared and distributed among stakeholders. The brochure is attached in the Annexure 5. A stakeholder’s workshop was organized at Gangtok on 06 February 2018. The proceedings of the workshop has been given in Annexure 6. An inception workshop was organized at NESAC, Shillong on 25 August 2017. The proceedings of the workshop and the list of the participants are attached in Annexure 7. An official visit was undertaken during 10 to 13 October 2017 to meet the state officials in Gangtok. The officials visited include the Mayor of the city, Assistant Director of Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA), Additional Director, Sikkim State Remote Sensing Applications Cell of DST, and the Director of Geological Survey of India (GSI), Sikkim Unit. RVA of the two cities were completed and the documents for the two project cities (documenting the RVA carried out) have been developed. These documents have been attached in the Annexure 8 and 9. A background paper (Annexure 11) has been developed documenting the various aspects of disaster management in the two cities with specific focus on the approach and methodology followed in this project, rapid vulnerability assessment (RVA) of the two cities to specific disasters and the impacts of future climate change projections on the two cities. Page 3 of 6 Project Affiliations Role & Responsibilities Partner Name 1. Dr Ajit Senior Advisor, • Lead Consortium partner and management Tyagi/Mr IRADe/Deputy support for the Consortium Rohit Director, IRADe Review of the existing literature on the project Magotra cities related to the project topic Stakeholder mapping and establishing linkages with stakeholders Methodology development for the research project. Rapid Vulnerability analysis for Shillong and Gangtok. Identification of critical infrastructure and micro zonation on the scale of 1:4000. Vulnerable Zone mapping – on the basis of socio-economic parameters. Secondary research, secondary data collection, Designing socio-economic surveys and documentation. Designing questionnaires, survey design, city surveys, disaster risk reduction strategies, information collection and liaison, shared learning dialogues. Stakeholder consultations, organizing workshops. Managing Primary research and data analysis Drafting Disaster Risk Reduction strategies and action plan for disaster resilience for 2 cities. Synthesis of recommendations and policy analysis. Technical and Financial Reporting 2. Dr Diganta Scientist/Engineer, RemoteOutreach Sensing and communication and GIS methodology design Barman North Eastern Space Development of methodology for developing Applications Centre cadastral maps on scale of 1:4000. (NESAC), Shillong Landuse mapping on cadastral scale of 1:4000. Preparation of cadastral maps using GIS Collection of primary data for developing vulnerable zones and HRVA Developing disaster wise (floods, landslides etc.) micro zonation based atlas/maps for the region Decision support software system for the risk and vulnerable zones. Serve as nodal point for collecting data, organizing stakeholder-meeting consultations in Shillong. Page 4 of 6 3. Dr Mithilesh Scientist "C" and Support in assessing impacts of urbanization Singh (upto SIC/Scientist “E” and on the ecosystems of cities through collecting Oct 2018)/Dr SIC environmental data, local surveys (water, air, Rajesh Joshi G. B. Pant National biodiversity etc.) in identified cities. (From Nov Institute of Community level consultations in Shillong and 2018) Himalayan Gangtok. Environment and Community consultations for disaster Sustainable resilience action plans. Development Mobilization of community based institutions (GBPNIHESD), for participatory planning. Sikkim Unit, Gangtok 2. Project Site Details Project Site Shillong and Gangtok IHR States Covered Meghalaya and Sikkim Long. & Lat. Shillong (at the approx.. centre): 25.578 N, 91.892 E Gangtok (at the approx.. centre): 27.343 N, 88.606 E Site Maps Given in Annexure 9 Site Photographs Given in Annexure 10 3. Project Activities Chart w.r.t. Timeframe [Gantt or PERT] PROJECT WORK UNDERTAKEN ACTIVITIES Year (01/04/2018 to 31/01/2019) (Work Packages) OUTPUT Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 WP1: Literature Completed. Review WP 2: Secondary Multi-hazard RVA of two data collection vulnerable areas cities have been and analysis identified in Completed. [including rapid Gangtok based on vulnerability secondary assessment (RVA) information. of the two cities] Page 5 of 6 WP3: Primary Survey and Through data collection data collection survey, through urbanization questionnaire induced in 7 wards of vulnerable Gangtok areas has been Municipal identified in Corporation ward 3 and 4. has been GPS completed. coordinates of vulnerable areas have been recorded. Analysis of survey data in progress. WP4: GIS and RS Methodologies Extraction of Vetting and Maps of have been building Ground building developed for footprints and Truthing footprints and flood hazard roads using for roads using mapping, seismic Worldview-2/3 Gangtok Worldview-2/3 hazard mapping, images for both has been images for both landslide hazard the project done the project zonation, and for cities cities development of completed. geospatial