In order to deal with any natural calamity taking place in future, each district in the State will have an Emergency Operation Station Center (EOSC) to be controlled by a centrally located State Emergency Operation Center in Ranchi. Chief Minister Raghubar Das, while holding a meeting with Jharkhand State Disaster Management Authority at his Project Building office in Ranchi on Friday, directed the officials to make the centres functional by July this year.
Das also directed the officials to ensure that lightening conductors are made mandatory for any newly constructed government building in the state from now onwards. “Besides that, the old buildings are also equipped with the lightening conductors,” added the CM.
The CM asked the officials to take proper action towards installing lightening conductors in the all the Government Schools as per the requirement after making an assessment of the present situation in the state. Das also directed the officials to notify lightening as state specific disaster compensating its victims under (State Disaster Relief Fund) SDRF norms.
“Training of State Disaster Relief Force must be started within a month making proper arrangement for divers, lifeboats and other modern life saving equipments in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Sahebganj and other vulnerable places in the state,” the CM said.
Das also said that taking care of the disaster management victims or rehabilitating the victims was not the only responsibility of disaster management authority but they should also focus on minimizing the losses of any natural calamity making the alert system more effective so that people so that the people could be made aware of any emergency like situation.
Das, stressing on formation of sensitive workforce to deal with any emergency situation in the state, also directed the officials to form a Civil Defense Unit of 100 volunteers in each of the districts and give them proper training of disaster management. These volunteers should be regularly trained and utilized during local disasters or crowd management during festive seasons like Durga Puja.
The decisions taken during the meeting were also lauded by the officials who termed them a classic example in the History of Jharkhand.
“It is a classic example in the History of Jharkhand that such good things have started happening in the state,” Sate Programme Officer of Disaster Management, Colonel SK Shrivastava. Das also directed the official to make the Disaster Response Force to complete its training within a month.
According to Srivastava, a draft State Disaster Management Plan was also presented before the CM which is to be updated within a month. “It has been directed by the CM to get it updated within a month,” said Srivastava. Approval for Jharkhand Institute of Mining Disaster was also approved for Dhanbad by the CM which is to be specialized in mining disasters, added Srivastava.
Similarly, he said, that a joint Training Institute of Disaster Management and Civil Defense in Ranchi was also approved by the CM.