India Disaster Resource Network

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Wind and Cyclone Hazard Map of INDIA
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Background

• The Indian sub-continent has suffered enormous
  loss of lives, livelihood and damage of public
  property due to its extreme vulnerabilities to
  several natural and man-made hazards. But there
  is no organized information system on
  availability of resources for disaster response
  at district, state and national levels.
  Government agencies have face problems in
  mobilizing equipments and skilled human resources
  to respond immediately to emergencies.

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Compulsions of Disaster Managers

• Non Availability of Inventory of Resources with
  the disaster managers.
• Non Availability of the Network for Resources to
  be referred at the time of disaster.
• Not able to identify its own resources to meet
  different disaster.
• Not able to mobilize resources from its own
  district nor from the neighboring district or
  State.
• Gap in occurrence Response Time in mobilising
  of resources.

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Precious Human Lives Need help........
URGENT ??
Insult to Injury
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What is IDRN?

• Its a web-enabled GIS based All-India Resource
  Inventory i.e. on-line centralized database.
• This Resource inventory titled IDRN (Indian
  Disaster Resource Network) will be available on
  the website with the Url
  www.idrn.gov.in
• to all the disaster managers at various levels
  for better response to different disasters.

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Objective

• To collect and collate information on resources
  available in the country for emergency response.
• To enhance the decision making capabilities of
  Government functionaries in quick response to
  emergencies.

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• This web portal was inaugurated by honorable
  Deputy Prime Minister on 1st September 2003
  through Video Conferencing with six of the Chief
  Ministers.
• Till date process has been initiated in 414
  districts of 25 State UTs.
• The Centralized database is having 50765 nos. of
  Resources uploaded from different districts.

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Prevention is Better Than Cure
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About the portal

• 226 items are identified which comes to help
  response in different disasters.
• The resources are of 3 types
• Human Resources
• Equipment Resources
• Critical Resources
• Resources of all the Line Dept., Military Units,
  Public Sector Units Private Sector Units are
  accountable.
• Form-I Form-II(A,B,C) are developed to be
  shared to different departments/ Units in a
  district and resources have to be captured.

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Rescue Evacuation Teams in Action
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Work Process for IDRN
synchronized
Database at NIC
Database at MHA
State
State level coordination for building inventory
database
Internet
Data entry through Online offline application
District
District
NIC
NIC
Line Dept. 1
Line Dept. 1
Line Dept. 1
Line Dept. 1
Form-1
Form-2a, -2b, -2c
Data collection in paper format
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Agencies at work
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Role of State Nodal Officer

• To assist monitor the progress of various
  districts.
• To support the District Administration.
• To coordinate with the State Informatics Officer.
• To ensure the enhanced use of the portal.
• Organising different orientation briefing of
  officials at various levels.
• To keep in regular touch with District Magistrate
  sharing status with them.
• Problems Issues has to discussed.
• Success stories has to be documented.
• Status has to be shared with Chief Secretary.
• Problems technical issues has to be discussed.
• Suggestion for improvement has to be taken care
  off.

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Role of District Magistrate

• Hole and Sole responsible for the development of
  the online inventory of resources.
• To ensure all the existing Units/Departments
  should submit their resource for the resource
  inventory it has to be well recorded in files.
• To ensure the web portal contains updated
  validated information.
• To ensure the enhanced use of the portal for any
  kind of disaster at the district.
• To monitor assist DNO DIO for sustainability
  of the web portal problem faced by them.
• To include the procedure in the district
  coordination meetings.
• All the officials related to disaster should know
  to use the portal for querying the centralized
  data base.

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Role of District Nodal Officer

• To ensure collect of information from all
  existing Departments/Units in the district.
• To ensure data collected has to be valid
  uploaded to the centralised database and it is
  well recorded.
• To ensure the enhanced use of the portal for any
  kind of disaster.
• To keep in regular touch with District magistrate
  District Informatics officer for sharing of
  information.
• To ensure that web portal is updated.
• Problems should be discussed with the district
  magistrate.
• Should know the uses of the portal.

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Role of DIOs

• To give technical support to the District
  Administration.
• To help in the process of data uploading
• To ensure the enhanced use of the portal for any
  kind of disaster at the district.
• To keep in regular touch with Nodal
  Officer/District Magistrate for sharing
  information and querying the centralised
  database.
• To keep the site update.
• Regular correspondence with NO/DM for any kind of
  difficulties faced to keep the site updated.
• NO/DM Should be trained to use the portal.

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Support for the programme

• Users Manual Printed Circulated
• IT Facilitator support for the programme
• Flyers in English developed.
• Flyers in Hindi developed.
• Training orientation at State level District
  level.
• Report Developed on Success Stories
• Meetings Discussion held to solve technical
  Issues.
• Improvement of web portal to make it more user
  friendly.