 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Sanjeev Verma on Monday chaired a meeting to assess preparedness of departments for Multi Hazard Risk Assessment in the state.
On the occasion, Team leader RMSI Pushpendra Johari presented a detailed presentation on Multi Hazard Risk Assessment for the state of J&K. He informed that the objective of assessment is to study the physical infrastructure, social and economic vulnerability of the state to all the major hazards including earthquake, flood, flash flood, avalanche, drought and setting up web-based Disaster Risk Database (DRDB) which will help disaster risk reduction.
It was said informed setting up of an Integrated Operational Forecasting System (IOFS) for hydro- meteorological hazards Flood, Flash Flood, Avalanche, Drought has been proposed to provide real time forecast and warning.
The meeting was informed that the risk assessment of the state shall be conducted by RMSI at state, district, and tehsil level which will help the planners in taking appropriate mitigation measures for reducing the risks. The RMSI will also be providing integrated operational early warning forecasting system that will be connected to emergency operation services for forecast.
Earlier, the CEO Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project (World Bank Aided) Vinod Sharma welcomed the participants. |
