New Delhi: Home Union Amit Shah on Tuesday examined the nation’s preparedness to manage flooding in aftermath of this monsoon and involves greater discriminate between the Central and state agencies to make a permanent system for predicting floods and tracking the increase in water levels at important catchment regions of the nation.
In the high level assembly chaired by him personally to critique the long-term steps to be prescribed as part of an extensive plan to mitigate the continuing flood difficulty, Shah chose a ton of choices to have a brand new system of communicating among the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Jal Shakti Ministry, Central Water Commission (CWC) and also NDRF.
The assembly was attended by Jal Shakti Union Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, MoS (house ) Nityanand Rai, Member Secretary NDMA, Director Generals of both IMD and NDRF, CWC chairman, CWC and senior officers of the concerned ministries.
Shah advised the Jal Shakti ministry to work out a mechanism for desilting of big dams, which will assist in raising dam storage capability and aid in flood management.
IMD and CWC, he explained, could utilize state-of-the-art engineering and satellite information to get more precise weather and flooding forecasts.
The home minister educated a normal operating procedure be devised to broadcast IMD warnings on lightning strikes on the general public in the earliest by TV, FM Radio, SMS and other mediums.
In addition, he sought maximum advertisement for various mobile programs associated with weather forecasting such as’Umang’,”Rain Alarm’ and’Damini’, made from the IMD, so the highest members of the people could benefit.
Damini program lays out warnings regarding lightning strikes three hours beforehand.
Shah suggested that research be conducted via satellite program about the growing strain on the nation’s river systems.
He led the CWC, IMD and NDRF to constantly monitor the water level and flooding scenario in rivers and also send normal reports to the MHA.
In addition, he led DG NDRF to instantly hold meetings with all the minds of those SDRF in flood-prone nations.
According to the home minister from the flooding inspection meeting held on July 3 final year, the CWC has now begun to issue self-improvement progress inflow prediction for several of the reservoirs in the nation.
Shah led the Ministry of Jal Shakti and CWC to set up an enabled group of specialists for providing practical advice to dam governments for requiring timely and progress action for discharge of water.
IMD and CWC chiefs made presentations in the meeting, sharing specifics of this follow up actions on decisions taken in previous year’s assembly.
They also briefed about the progress in flood and weather forecasting methods.
Ganga and the Brahmaputra are principal flooding basins of both India and Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the very flood prone states.
Amit Shah reviews Flooding preparedness, Requires Improved Centre-state coordination
