Some 55 members from various Disaster Management Offices (DMOs) of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indian Navy, Coast Guard, and others participated in Tsunami Standard Operation Procedure for a multi-State mock exercise for Tsunami to be conducted later this month.
The event conducted at the Indian National Centre For Ocean Information Service (INCOIS) was inaugurated by its Director S.S.C. Shenoi and NDMA Member Lt. Gen. N.C. Marwah here on Wednesday. Scientists from INCOIS and Senior Consultant from NDMA addressed the participants.
Familiarised
Disaster management officials of coastal States and Union Territories were familiarised with the Tsunami bulletins issued by INCOIS, preparedness, response time, communication to the next level for action to be taken and provided briefing on the mock Tsunami drills. Later, the officials participated in a tabletop exercise at the Tsunami Early Warning Centre, which has completed 10 years of existence.
The Multi-State Mock Exercise for Tsunami is scheduled to be conducted on November 24, on East Coast of India (Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) that will be jointly coordinated by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and INCOIS.
The drill provides an opportunity for disaster management authorities to exercise their operational lines of communications, exercise their SOP, review their tsunami warning and emergency response procedures, and to promote emergency preparedness, a press release said.