GUWAHATI:
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in association with Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) conducted a day-long training on the National Disaster Management Information System portal for officials of Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, on April 8.
The portal has been developed to capture damages owing to disasters and monitoring of funds disbursal under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for relief activities.
It was informed that the online system will track the disaster impacts and hazards for the entire country up to the district level.
Inaugurating the training programme, the state’s commissioner and secretary of revenue and disaster management department, GD Tripathi said that the online portal would help the SDMAs to improve data transparency, data availability, data authenticity, and data consolidation at the central level related to the allotment and utilization of SDRF and NDRF funds.
“The online portal has two components. The first would help in reporting the data related to SDRF and NDRF from the districts to the state, and from state to centre. This module has already been launched and it is in use by other states. The second component would help capture disaster damage and losses and also for monitoring the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR),” Tripathi said.
“Under this component, parameters such as death, injury, affected population by categories, economic closes in sectors such as education, health, housing, agriculture, industries, critical infrastructures such as roads, bridges, and building, cultural heritages will be captured. The state and their respective districts will be responsible to enter the data of their local disasters,” he added.
R Lalromanwaiand Zaukhana, DM, Mizoram State Disaster Management Authority (MSDMA), K Chandrasekhar Singh and Gaithuingam Golmei, Manipur State Disaster Management Authority (MSDMA), Suman Deb, Jayanta Dev, Satyajit Dev, Pinki Pal, and Sanhita Paul, Tripura state Disaster management authority (TSDMA) attended the training programme along with other senior officials of revenue and disaster management department.