ASDMA launches online portals for effective decision making

Minister of State, Revenue & Disaster Management, Pallab Lochan Das, addressing the media, congratulated ASDMA on successful accomplishment of its goals in the target period and encouraged to work towards disaster resilience. ASDMA had the following goals in its 100 days target: Revised Flood Hazard Atlas with 18 years dataset to be released Development of a web geo portal on Google platform with all critical infrastructures for decision support to be made available Online Management Information System on Search & Rescue equipments Inventory for Assam to be compiled and made available online Mapping of open spaces within Guwahati city to assess the availability of open ground as port of its preparedness measure for response In case of a major earthquake 200 Apartments of Guwahati city will be sensitized on Earthquake preparedness & fire Safety on a door to door basis About the targets achieved: Assam State Disaster Management Authority has carried out "ZONE V", an earthquake and fire Safety sensitization programme in 198 apartments and few Shopping Malls of Guwahati within 72 days with the help of team of officers from ASOMA, Fire & Emergency Services, AsSam, Civil Defence Volunteers. The community largely appreciated this initiative of the Government. ASDMA in collaboration with National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad has updated the Flood Hazard Atlas of Assam with 18 years data set The Flood Hazard Atlas 2016 now has the flood hazard zone mapped till the village and revenue circle level. ASDMA has mapped out the open spaces in all the 31 wards under Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) boundary to assess the availability of open ground for setting up shelter in the likelihood of earthquake as the city is densely populated. The mapping exercise was carried out on the Google earth satellite imageries followed by extensive ground validation using handheld GPS devices The open space atlas has been made available in public domain at www.asdma.gov.in and also In printed version. ASDMA collected, designed and developed a huge database comprising of around 18000 points on 18 different critical utilities & infrastructures i.e. hospitals, police stations, important Govt buildings, educational institutions which can be used as shelter places during disasters, community halls, raised platform, veterinary hospitals, ferry ghats, ASTC bus stations, water supply sources, places of public congregation, vital installations, LPG godowns of refineries, PWD bridges located in National & State Highway, railway stations & grounds for helipads under the project on "GIS Mapping of Utilities & Infrastructures for Assam.” All these database has been developed in the GIS environment. The usability of these layers in the districts are restricted due to the non availability of GIS software. Therefore, a user friendly web GIS portal has been developed on Google earth platform. This will help the administration in planning and prompt and effective decision making in case of an emergency and also to counteract any disaster on a timely manner. The web GIS portal has been made available in the following platform: www.asdma.gov.in and www.onlineasdma.assam.gov.in ASDMA has designed & developed an online MIS on Search & Rescue Equipment for District Disaster Management Authorities (DDMAs) & SDMA State HQ.  This online MIS is a web based application which can be used by the State & District Disaster Management Authorities with the help of authenticated user id & password. This MIS will help in carrying out effective response and planning for preparedness as well. The MIS is available at www.asdma.gov.in and www.misasdma.in