National Disaster Management Information System (NDMIS) training drive conducted in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in collaboration with the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), conducted a day-long zone-wise training programme on the National Disaster Management Information System (NDMIS) for the officials concerned of Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on Friday at the ASDMA Conference Hall here.

According to a press release, the NDMIS portal is a comprehensive online application, being developed to capture disaster damages and the losses effectively and also for monitoring of funds disbursal under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to States for relief activities in case of disasters. The online system will track the impacts of hazards for the entire country up to district level.

Inaugurating the training programme, GD Tripathi, Commissioner & Secretary of the Revenue & Disaster Management Department, welcomed all the participants from the MHA along with State Disaster Management Authorities of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. He said that this online portal would definitely help the SDMAs to improve data transparency, data availability, data authenticity and data consolidation at 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 the SDRF and the NDRF from the districts to State level and from State level to the Centre. This module has already been launched and it is in use by other States. The second component would help in capturing disaster damage and losses and also for monitoring the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR). Under this component, parameters such as death, injury, affected population by categories, economic losses in sectors such as education, health, housing, agriculture, industries, critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges and building, cultural heritages etc., will be captured. The States and their respective districts will be responsible to enter the data of their local disasters. The training programme was also attended by Alakananda Medhi, State Project Coordinator (SPC), ASDMA; Vikram Gurjar, Deputy Commandant, MHA; Harsh Meena, Consultant (NDMIS), MHA; Pawan Arora, NIC; R Lalromawai and Zaukhana, DM Department, Mizoram State Disaster Management Authority; K Chandrasekhar Singh and Gaithuingam Golmei, DM Department, Manipur State Disaster Management Authority; Suman Deb, Jayanta Dey, Satyajit Deb, Pinki Pal and Sanhita Sarkar Paul, Tripura State Disaster Management Authority; and other senior officials of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department and ASDMA.

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