The State Disaster Management department added another feather in its cap and eased information dissemination about disasters and ways to mitigate damages as a result of calamities of various types. A new website plugs the gap to put in place a potent mechanism for disaster management.
The website known as “Jharkhand Knowledge-cum-Demonstration Centre” (JKDC) provides detailed information about various types of disasters such as earthquake, forest fire and drought which affects certain parts of Jharkhand to great degree.
“The aim of setting up of JKDC is to empower the cutting edge government functionaries and members of community including the elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions, Urban local Bodies by providing them with appropriate knowledge, skill, technology, tools, techniques, good practices for participatory management of disasters,” said State Project Officer for Jharkhand, United Nations Development Programme, Colonel Sanjay Srivastava.
The portal facilitates sharing of knowledge and advances in the field of DRR and CCA; disseminates appropriate technologies, knowledge, information, and replicable experiences on DRR; demonstrate tools, techniques, technologies, materials, skills for mitigation, management of various hazards; demonstrates various options for disaster resistant development; works as a platform to create community awareness on a sustained basis and strengthens State government, community institutions on participatory disaster management.
“This is a very good initiative. The more we will share knowledge the more efficiently we can manage disaster,” said Joint Secretary, Disaster Management, RK Gupta. The portal makes available literatures and training materials on disaster management; facilitate access to strengthen the reach and improve quality of relief and rescue operation; encourages people to create, learn, organize, share and reuse knowledge. Also, the website provides a common platform for disaster management practitioners and institutions to cross share their works done in the field of disaster mgmt besides creating a repository of knowledge from other institutions.