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Centre asks states to augment disaster management preparedness

Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday asked all states and union territories to enhance their preparedness for handling natural disasters like heavy rains, floods etc that may arise due to southwest monsoon, at a time when the country is still battling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla emphasized on the need of building up capacities and response reflexes to ensure round the clock preparedness to deal with impending disasters.

Bhalla also advised the states “to make extra efforts to secure all health facilities, oxygen generation plants” from heavy rains, floods or any other impending disaster during the South-West Monsoon.

Bhalla was presiding over the annual conference of relief commissioners and secretaries of the departments of disaster management of states/UTs. The senior bureaucrat asked both the Central and state agencies to be better prepared amid the Covid-19 pandemic, to minimize losses due to natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes etc.

Issues linked to disaster preparedness, early warning systems, flood and river/reservoir management, disaster management on-site and off-site plans of the states and Union territories were discussed, the home ministry said, in a statement.

At the conference, the home secretary released version 4.0 of the National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM), developed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), which the Centre said would be helpful in integration of real-time alerts and warnings from forecasting agencies and their dissemination to disaster management authorities up to district level for disaster risk reduction in the country.

“The IMD made a presentation on forecasting, warning and dissemination mechanism, response and preparedness measures and their future plans for enhancing capability in the field of disaster management,” read an official statement.The conference was attended by representatives of states and UTs, Central ministries, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), Central Water Commission (CWC ), Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), NRSC, GSI, Armed Forces and NDRF.

May 21, 2021
Thugs Remove ‘Opportunity’ from Disaster Management Officer’s Bank Account

Tilottama Soni (Disaster Management Officer), resident of Kankalipara here, lodged a report that on 8/05/2021 BSNL’s Seam was cheated under the guise of verification and withdrawing money from two different bank accounts. In this case, the police have registered a case under section 420 of the IPC and started searching for the thugs.The thug called the said authority on the phone at 2 in the afternoon and said that your SIM is going to be blocked. The thug also reported its time as 3:40 pm. Thinking that the phones should not be switched off, the said officer made his daughter talk to the thugs. The thug took the whole process of immediately verifying Sim with his daughter in a hoax. The thug downloaded the Enidesk app on the victim’s mobile to make money. After this, going to BSNL Online recharge website bsnl.rechargecube.in and asked to recharge for 10 rupees.

After which the victim made a recharge of Rs 10 by entering the card number and CVV number from the ATM card of her Central Bank of India account number 1384614574. After which the thug said that the registration number of the SIM card is not being generated. Therefore, be recharged from another bank’s card. After this, the daughter of the victim made a debit card number and CVV number of SBI account number 10038954223 and recharged Rs 10 from the phone pay app. Shortly after this, the thugs pulled out about 81 thousand rupees from both the bank accounts of the said officer.

May 18, 2021
Relief Commissioner reviews disaster management operations through videoconferencing

Ms. Rita Shandilya, Secretary and Relief Commissioner, Department of Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Chhattisgarh, today through video conferencing from Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhavan, Nodal Officers of Disaster Management of Raigad, Rajnandgaon, Raipur and Sukma, Disaster Mitra Scheme, District Disaster Management Plan, Detailed information about rescue and management was taken from District Fire Protection Plan and LU. He inquired about the activities of disaster management including registration in NDMIS portal under revenue book circular 6-4 at the district level.
The Secretary has instructed the officials of the concerned districts to expedite the selection of the disaster friend volunteers for the implementation of the disaster friend scheme and send the information to the Revenue and Disaster Management Department by 15 April 2021. He Scout and Guide, NCC, NSS under the disaster friend scheme. And instructed to join the volunteers of Nehru Yuva Kendra and participate in more and more women.

April 8, 2021