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As a part of overall preparedness of the state, the Government of Maharashtra (GoM) has a State Disaster Management Plan to support and
strengthen the efforts of district administration. In this context, every
district has evolved its own District Disaster Management Plan (D.D.M.P.).
It is expected that these multi-hazard response plans would increase the
effectiveness of administrative
intervention.
The D.D.M.P. addresses the districts' response to the disasters and road
accidents and fires. Some of these disasters such as floods and
earthquakes affect large areas causing extensive damage to life, property
and environment while others such as epidemics affect large
population. In any case, the management of these disasters is requires
extensive resources and man power for containment by remedial
actions.
The objectives of District Action Plan
are
* To
improve preparedness at the district level. through risk and vulnerability
analysis to disasters and to minimize the impact of disasters in terms of
human, physical and material loss.
* To ascertain the status of existing resources and
facilities available with the various agencies involved in the district and
make it an exercise in capability building of district administration.
* To utilize different aspects of disaster for development planning as a
tool for location and area specific planning for development of
district.
As a part of this plan the Control Rooms are established at the Collectorate and at each Tahsil office in the district and is kept
functioning for 24 hours a day during the rainy season only. The phone
numbers are informed to all
departments.
The
SP office and public hospitals are directed to be prepared in case of
emergency situations and liaison is kept with police control room also.
The District Control room has facilities of wireless communication, hot
line, fax, e-mail and video conferencing and V-Sat phone.
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