Flood Preparedness in Bihar2018

Disaster Management Department

Government of Bihar

Contents

•Initial Forecast by IMD

•Floods in Bihar

•Flood Preparedness by Disaster Management Department, Govt. of Bihar

•SOP for Flood Preparedness

First Stage Forecast of Southwest Monsoon Season-2018 Rainfall by IMD

•Quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal rainfall is likely to be 97% of the Long Period Average (LPA) with an error of ± 5%.

•Forecast assessment suggests 42% of probability for near normal monsoon rainfall.

• IMD will issue the update forecasts in early June, 2018 as a part of the second stage long range forecast of monsoon rainfall.

Extremely F.P. Flood Prone

Supaul Araria

Madhepura Purnea

VaishaliW.Champaran

Begusarai Saran

Katihar Nalanda

Madhubani Sheikhpura

Sitamarhi Kishanganj

Khagaria Bhojpur

Muzzafarpur Lakhisarai

Bhagalpur Patna

E.Champaran

Siwan

Samastipur Gopalganj

Katihar Buxar

Saharsa

Darbhanga

Total Districts – 38Flood Prone Districts - 28

Population affected by Major Floods

Year District AffectedPopulation Affected

(in Lakhs)

2004 20 212.99

2007 22 244.42

2008 18 50.93

2009 16 22.03

2011 25 71.43

2013 20 72.34

2014 20 30.00

2016 31 88.23

2017 19 171.64

Flood Response 2017

• 19 out of 38 districts affected

• 187 out of 534 Blocks affected

• Death toll: 649

• Population affected: 171.64 lakh

• Deployment of Army, NDRF and SDRF in flood response:

Army NDRF SDRF

No. ofTeams

No. ofBoats

No. ofTeams

No. ofBoats

No. ofTeams

No. ofBoats

7 70 28 118 16 92

Relief Camps

• 1358 relief camps were setup for 4.2 lakh people

• Cooked meal, medical, toilet facilities

• Providing clothing, utensils, soaps, hair oil, comb, sanitary napkins etc. from Chief

Minister’s Relief Fund

• Payment of Rs. 15000/- for the birth of a girl child and Rs. 10000/- for the birth of a boy

child in case delivery of baby takes place either in the relief camp or in the process of

evacuation of pregnant lady

Community Kitchen

• Operational points – Highways, Railway Stations, MDM & Anganwadi Centres, Schools, Community Centres etc.

• Special attention on hygiene

• Cooked food including Rice, Daal, Vegetables

• Total ban on fried food

• 2569 community kitchen provided food for 492174 people

Distribution of Dry Ration/Food Packets

• Rice-6 kg, Pulse-1 kg, Potato-2 kg / Soya Bean-½ kg, Salt-½ kg,

Turmeric-Small Packet, Halogen tablets & ORS Packets

Flood Response 2017

Medical Facilities

• Establishment of 24x7 control room with toll free number

• Establishment of Medical Camps & Mobile Medical Camps

• Provision of Boat Ambulance in large numbers

• Spraying of bleaching powder

• Ensuring availability of essential / life saving drugs eg. ASVs,

ARVs, ORS, halogen tablets etc.

Summary of Medical Facilities

Flood Response 2017

Sl. No. Medical Facilities No.

1 Health Camps 441

2 Boat Ambulance 42

3 Mobile Health Camps 395

4 No. of flood affected patients treated 1,40,000

5 Institutional Delivery of women from flood affected areas 681

Gratuitous Relief (GR)

• Govt. provided Rs. 6000/- as GR to all flood affectedfamilies (Rs. 3000/- as Cash Dole + Rs. 3000/- for foodgrains) for all flood affected families

• GR was provided to affected families through RTGS only

• State Govt. disbursed total of Rs. 2290 crore as GR toaffected families

• Upon feedback from field and for better monitoringgovernment decided to provide GR through Direct BenefitTransfer (DBT) from this year onwards.

Flood Response 2017

Flood Preparedness Review at Highest Level

• Hon’ble Chief Minister reviews the flood preparedness with all concernedState Departments and District Magistrate. First flood preparednessreview meeting will be held in the first week of June under hischairmanship.

• Second review meeting by Hon’ble Chief Minister will be held in themonth of July.

• Hon’ble Minister Disaster Management Department also holds the floodpreparedness review meetings. A review meeting under his chairmanshipwill be held in last week of May 2018 with Add. District Magistrate / I/cofficer of disaster management of district.

• A series of review meetings are being held by Principal Secretary-DMDwith District Magistrate / Add. District Magistrate of all the districts.

Strengthening of State & District Emergency Operation Centre -SEOC & DEOC

• For better coordinated and efficient disaster response State is strengthening State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) and District Emergency Operation Centres (DEOCs) of the State.

• Expression of Interest (EoI) for SEOC strengthening has been floated

• The new SEOC complex is bestowed with “Earthquake Resistant Base Isolation Technique”

• Based on the advanced Information Communication Technology (ICT), SEOC will also be equipped with various tele-communication channels for redundancy

• Database of Mobile Network Service providers in Bihar being arranged for Mass Messaging of Early Warning and Disaster Alert to reach maximum number of residents of the state.

State Disaster Response Force (SDRF)

• Govt of Bihar in 2010 has given sanction forraising of one Battalion of State DisasterResponse Force (SDRF) on the line of NationalDisaster Response Force (NDRF).

• 12 out of 18 sanctioned teams are currentlyfunctioning

• In 2018, State Government decided to raisestrength of SDRF from 18 teams to 50 teams.

• One team each will be placed in all 38 districtsand rest 12 shall be stationed in Patna asreserve.

• Posts for additional 32 teams have beensanctioned by competent authority of thegovernment.

Deployment of SDRF in Flood Prone Districts

Sl. No. District Response Districts

SDRF Deployment

1 Khagaria Khagaria, Begusarai, Naugachia

2 Sitamarhi Sitamarhi, Seohar

3 Purnea Districts under Purnea Division

4 Bhagalpur Bhagalpur, Banka, Mungher, Seikhpura,

Lakhisarai

5 Madhubani Madhubani, Darbhanga, Samastipur

6 Madhepura Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul

7 Vaishali Vaishali, Samastipur

Deployment of NDRF in Flood Prone Districts

Sl. No. District Status

NDRF Deployment

1 PatnaPermanently Deployed

2 Supaul

3 Gopalganj

Additionally prepositioned during flood

period4 Muzzafarpur

5 Vaishali

All district authorities requested to review Flood Preparedness as perUpdated Standard Operating Procedure sent to all district authoritiesvide Letter no. 1253 dated 10.05.2018

Plans for Flood Preparedness as per SOP

•Status of Rain Gauge

• Identification of vulnerable people of the society in flood prone areas

• Identification of Relief shelter and assuring basic facilities in the shelter

•Protection of Embankments

• Information and Communication Dissemination

•Setting up of District Emergency Operation Centre cum Control Room

•Availability of Country Boats

•Polythene sheets and basic food materials

•Contingency plan of Medicine for Humans

•Arrangement of Fodder and Medicine for Domestic animals

•Procurement of Generator Set, Petromax

•Temporary godown to be identified for storage of foodgrains in pre-flood period to ensure availability of foodgrains during flood period.

•Large Nets (Mahajal) for rescue

Resource Mapping

Plans for Flood Preparedness as per SOP

•Mobile medical Team & medical camp

•Arrangement of Potable Drinking water with installation of hand pumps at elevated areas of flood prone villages

•Repair of Roads

•Contingency Plan for deployment of Lifejackets /Boats / Motorboats

•Training of divers

•Training of community and Capacity Building

Plans for Flood Preparedness as per SOP

•Setting up of Relief and Rescue Team

•Mock Exercise / Mock drills

•Nodal Officer Nomination and District Level task Force Constitution

•Alternate cropping Scheme for farmers of flood affected regions