Review preparedness and planning to tackle Cyclones In India ?
1)Leader ship:
- Prime Minister took a high level meeting today to review the preparedness of States and Central Ministries/Agencies concerned to deal with the situation arising out of Cyclone .
2) Administrative :
- Cabinet Secretary has taken a meeting of National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) on , with Chief Secretaries of all the Coastal States and UTs and Central Ministries/ Agencies concerned.
3) Ministry Of Home Affairs :
- Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is reviewing the situation 24*7 and is in touch with the State Governments/ UTs and the Central Agencies concerned.
- MHA has already released first instalment of SDRF in advance to all States.
- NDRF has pre-positioned 46 teams which are equipped with boats, tree-cutters, telecom equipments etc. In addition,
4)Indian Coast Guard
- Indian Coast Guard and the Navy have deployed ships and helicopters for relief, search and rescue operations. Air Force and Engineer task force units of Army, with boats and rescue equipment, are on standby for deployment. Seven ships with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Units are on standby along western coast.
5) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas has taken measures to secure all oil installations in the sea and to bring back their shipping vessels to safe harbour. Ministry of Power has activated emergency response systems and is keeping in readiness transformers, DG sets and equipment etc. for immediate restoration of electricity.
6)Ministry of Telecom
- Ministry of Telecom is keeping all the telecom towers and exchanges under constant watch and is fully geared to restore telecom network.
7)Ministry of Health & Family Welfare:
- Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued advisory to the Sates/ UTs, likely to be affected, for health sector preparedness and response on COVID in affected areas. Ministry of Port, Shipping and Waterways has taken measures to secure all shipping vessels and has deployed emergency vessels (Tugs).
8)NDRF
- NDRF is assisting the State agencies in their preparedness for evacuating people from the vulnerable locations and is also continuously holding community awareness campaign on how to deal with the cyclonic situation.
9)Governace:
- senior officers to work in close co-ordination with states to ensure safe evacuation of people from high-risk areas.
- all concerned departments to ensure timely evacuation of those involved in off-shore activities.
- the need to ensure that time duration of outages of power supply and communication network are minimum and are restored swiftly.
- officials to ensure proper co-ordination and planning with state governments to ensure no disruptions in Covid treatment and vaccination in hospitals.
- officials to ensure proper co-ordination and planning with state governments to ensure no disruptions in Covid treatment and vaccination in hospitals.
- officials that advisories and instructions on do’s and dont’s during the cyclone be made available in easy to understand and local language to citizens of the affected districts.
- the need to involve various stakeholders i.e. coastal communities, industries, etc by directly reaching out to them and sensitising them.
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