New Delhi (NVI): India is set to host the
second BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2020 at Bhubaneshwar in Odisha tomorrow.
The three-day ‘BIMSTEC DMEx-2020’ will be inaugurated by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Bhubaneswar while Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai will launch field training exercise on February 12 at Ramachandi Beach in Puri.
In this regard, NDRF and Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) today provided details like types of event, methodology of exercise, team participation and venue as well as moves and injects of main exercise to the media.
NDRF Director General
Satya Narayan Pradhan said five countries — Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal — are participating in this exercise.
Bhutan and Thailand, which are also members of BIMSTEC, are not participating in the exercise, he added.
The exercise consists of inaugural session and Table Top Exercise (TTx) on collapsed structure.
On February 12, the Field Training Exercise (FTx) will be held on aquatic disaster response with focus on cultural heritage sites at Ramachandi beach in Puri followed by proceedings of Disaster Management Exercise and Policy Meeting of NDMA and NDMOs among the teams of participating Nations on February 13.
The objective of this exercise is to test the existing emergency procedures for notification, preparedness and emergency response, during a major earthquake and Flood scenarios.
This exercise shall also provide an opportunity to enhance the co-ordination & co-operation involving multi-agency operations in an earthquake, flooding & storm surge.
The exercise shall also test multi-stakeholders coordination in a disaster scenario involving international, national, state, district and local agencies.
A exercise village has been set up at Ramchandi, Puri where, simulation on aquatic disaster response with special attention to the damage to heritage site will take place as part of the exercise.
This will provide real-time scenarios so that in times of disaster, a proper plan for response & coordination among member nation can be executed in multi-agencies scenarios.
