The Times of India 09.10.2014
Civic body to review, overhaul its disaster management programme
NAVI
MUMBAI: The civic body has chalked out a three-phase programme to review
its disaster management plan. The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s
(NMMC) disaster management cell has also made plans to conduct a
year-long study on how well the city is equipped to handle any hazard as
well as its impact on the society.
In the first phase, the
disaster management plan will be reviewed by Tata Institute of Social
Sciences. “The institute will be reviewing the steps taken by the civic
body in any disaster. It will study in detail the impact of various
disasters on the city and the different actions taken by the disaster
management team to deal with it,” said a senior official from the
disaster management cell.
The institute is expected to conduct
its study specifically on the impacts of nine disasters such as
earthquakes, floods, dilapidated building collapse, chemical accidents,
tsunami, riots and landslides. Work on the month-long project has
already started.
The cell will be updated about any new course of action to be implemented and ways to better its ways of functioning.
The second and third phases will be a study of how vulnerable the city
is to any hazard and its social impact. “This will be a year-long
process where we will test the infrastructure’s vulnerability to hazards
such as earthquakes with the help of simulation techniques. A decision
will be taken at the earliest,” added the official.
J
Sinnarkar, in-charge of disaster management department, said that they
are engaged in lot of activities. “Reviewing the disaster management
plans is one of the processes,” he added.
