Disaster Management Section
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About Section Disaster means any potential threat due to natural or manmade event that may bring negative impact in our society like property and crop damage, human casualties, cattle loss etc. Disaster mainly occurs as a consequence of any natural hazards like flood, earthquake, landslide, cyclone or tsunami. Disaster management is a concept adopted by the govt. to handle any kind of adverse situation with an approach of minimizing the loss and destruction and a speedy recovery. In accordance with the activities, the disaster management synergy has been classified into three components like pre-disaster, during disaster and post disaster. There are some predefined functionaries and responsibilities at each of these stages mentioned below.
Disaster management section is responsible to steer all the activities and maintain a systematic procedure to face any kind of adverse situation with the help of existing strength and capacity.
Disaster in Alipurdur District
Alipurduar has been carved out from Jalpaiguri and declared as a district on 25th June, 2014. It is a small district situated in the northern part of West Bengal and is constantly under stress due various natural hazards.
Our Activities
At the pre-disaster stage, our first target is to write and publish Disaster Management plan well in advance and hand over the same to the sub-division, municipality, all blocks and line departments. Apart from this we provide training to the local people and school children through various awareness camp, mock drill. In addition, we distribute different relief materials to all blocks and municipality. During disaster, our main focus is to mitigate the situation by deploying various task forces at the place of occurrence, providing basic amenities to the relief camp for distressed people, helping the people by providing medical facilities, sending special water wing personnel as and when required. At the post-disaster stage, emphasis is given especially on speedy recovery and brings back the situation in normalcy. Beside this, clearing all roads blocked by any obstacle, damage assessment in terms of money, disposing of carcass in proper place etc. are the activities done after any disaster taking place.
Various grants and relief scheme
There exist various govt. schemes/funds which are being provided to the beneficiaries of different cases like house damage or death due to snakebite/thunderstorm/drowning. The existing grants are HB grant, Exgratia, Cash GR, ER grant etc. All these claims are being made by the beneficiary or any close relative next to that person at the Blocks and forwarded to the District. District authority verifies all the claims scrupulously and forward to the state authority. The amount then is released from state and is reached in the same way through proper channel.
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