NMMC
to improve considerably its disaster management plans
By Dinesh Kamath
(Above) Picture of NMMC
NAVI MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai
Municipal Corporation has planned to conduct disaster management programme in
three phases. The disaster management cell of NMMC is making a thorough
research on how to protect Navi Mumbai in case of occurrence of any kind of
disaster so as to make it one of the safest cities.
The first phase consists
of making a study of current ability of the civic body to tackle any kind of disaster.
To do this study, Tata Institute of Social Sciences is rendering its help. This
institute is studying the plan of the civic body and trying to perfect the plan
so as to equip the city with all the resources necessary to tackle any kind of
disaster. This institute is making a study of what kind of disasters are likely
to occur in Navi Mumbai after which the institute will work out a detailed plan
about how to prevent or tackle the disasters. All kinds of disasters like earthquakes,
floods, dilapidated building collapse, chemical accidents, tsunami, riots and
landslides etc are taken into consideration. The institute will inform the
disaster cell of NMMC about the latest technology available to fight any kind
of disasters.
In the second and third
phases a thorough research will be done about the disasters which are most
likely to occur in Navi Mumbai and how it can affect the social lives of the
city residents. The disaster cell of NMMC will be informed about how certain
haphazardly built infrastructures can make the city vulnerable to disasters
like earthquakes and what preventive measures and techniques to adopt to tackle
such happenings.
Thus the disaster
management department of NMMC is currently very busy reviewing the disaster
management plans which once they complete they might come up with fantastic techniques
of tackling disasters that are most likely to hit the city.
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