Haryana Revenue and Disaster Management Minister, Capt Abhimanyu on Monday urged the Central Government to provide financial support in planning and implementation of disaster management programmes, particularly in view of Gurugram falling within the ambit of seismic zone IV, one of the regions highly prone to earthquakes.
The Minister, who was speaking at second d meeting of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in New Delhi, said that social media application should also be developed to interconnect institutions and states.
The meeting saw the whole range of country’s disaster risk community coming together to share experiences, views and ideas, and explore opportunities for mutual cooperation in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), to prepare a roadmap for the formulation of future national action plans on DRR.
Capt Abhimanyu said that the Haryana Government is establishing Emergency Operation Centres (EOC) at state and district levels.
“Since Haryana is vulnerable to earthquakes, we intend to conduct seismic micro-zonation of vulnerable areas such as Gurugram, Faridabad, and other important cities. The Town and Country Planning Department and Haryana Urban Development Authority will ensure the implementation of National Building Code to come up with disaster resilient structures. Asset mapping of disaster response resource inventories in GIS-enabled environment in the State has become one of our priorities,” he added.