CHAPTER-V

CAPABILITY ANALYSIS

5.1 Inventories and Evaluation of Resources Analysis:

Analysis and assessment of the resources and opportunities form the stepping-stone in the preparatory stage. Authentic assessments can make the planner aware of their firmness and wants, so that they can equip themselves with all the required items and materials well in advance. The resources necessary for disaster preparedness during and after disasters are listed below:

5.1.1 Shelters:

Accommodation for rescued/evacuated people has to be planned in advance. People living in low-lying areas have to be shifted to places at a higher elevation. Advance identification of such sites is an important element of disaster preparedness. Schools and other public buildings located at highest elevations should be inspected before the rainy season and strengthened. The floodplains are very densely populated and availability of suitable lands for raised sites of villages in the vicinity of vulnerable low-lying areas is a major problem. People are not prepared to move to distant locations away from their sources of livelihood. Institutions located at higher elevations have come in handy to provide shelter to people who have to be evacuated from low-lying areas. For this purpose, shelters available in the district at the following places.

Name of the Block	Location of the Relief/Flood Shelter
Roing	Higher Secondary School, Roing, Central School, JNV, VKV, ITI, DIET, Forest Training Institute, DUDA, CPO, General Ground, Roing
Koronu	Circle Officer Office, Govt. Secondary School, Middle School
Dambuk	Circle Officer Office, Govt. Secondary School, Middle School,
Paglam	Circle Officer Office, Govt. Secondary School, Middle School
Dambuk	Circle Officer Office, Govt. Secondary School, Middle School

Apart from these, the school buildings in different places can be used as temporary flood-cum-Relief shelter. The list of the identified schools that can serve the purpose is given in ANNEXURE-VII.

5.1.2 Storage of Food

Storage of food in accessible pockets is as vital as building shelters. All the Block headquarters and FCI Godowns, Fair Price Shops are used as storage points when need arises. The COs, BDOs and the storage agents in charge of the respective blocks will be the contact person for the block headquarters or Circle HQs and the Owners is the contact person for the village level. Adequate quantity of rice has been kept with each storage agent at each block headquarters for distribution to the victims as immediate relief. These locations are used as storage locations for medicines, blankets. It has been decided to keep adequate stock of rice in the following places for distribution of emergent relief.

SL. No.	Name of block	Place of storage	Quantities to be stored (in quintals)	Remarks
1	Roing-Koronu	Roing	600
2.	Dambuk-Paglam	Dambuk & Paglam	200	100 Qtls at Paglam, 100 Qtls for Dambul to be stored at Roing for airlifting purpose
3.	Hunli-Desali	Hunli	200	100 Qtls for Desali stored at Roing for airlifting

Source: DFCSO, Roing

5.2 Capability Analysis of the Institutions/office in District:

All the departments at the district HQ are connected with telephone connection. The Control Room is being used to setup during the month of June, July and August at the Office of District Relief & Rehabilitation Officer. A proposal is awaited to install an EMERGENCY CONTROL ROOM based on ‘Bamboo Technology’. The District Relief & Rehabilitation Officer and the Field Officer (DRM) will monitor after the natural calamities in the district as their responsibilities and their areas of operation have been defined by the district authority as well as Directorate of Relief, Rehab & Disaster Management, Itanagar. All the line departments have been directed to keep themselves ready as per the guidelines mentioned in this booklet. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with NGOs called Essomi Foundation Trust, which is operating in the district have been asked for preparing village contingency plans specifying hazard plans and forming task/action groups involving local volunteers, PRIs, Gaon Burahs. Other institutional arrangements have been elaborated in the coming pages.

5.3 Communication and Media:

Wireless stations, Community Information Centre, VHF, HF station & National Informatics Centre having internet connectivity are the quickest means of communication of weather warning and other important messages on flood, fire, landslides, earthquakes etc. Regular wireless sets are available in all police stations. The list is given in ANNEXURE- XIV.

Installation of Wireless Stations & CIC/NIC:

Sl.No.	Name of the Block	Place of installation
1	Roing-Koronu	a) NIC District Centre at Deputy Commissioner office b) Community Information Centre, Roing c) Wireless Station at Police Station & Superintendent of Police, Roing d) BSNL Office, Roing
2	Hunli-Desali	a) Police Station Hunli b) Telephone at SDO office
3	Dambuk-Paglam	a) Police Station, Dambuk b) Telephone, SDO/CO office

5. 4 Administrative Preparedness for different Disasters

The following steps have been taken as a part of administrative preparedness to combat any eventualities during and immediately after the disaster:

1. Control Rooms are functioning round the clock in the Office of DRRO, Roing since 2003.
2. Senior Level Officers from different departments will be assigned charges for all the flood, landslides, Fire /Drought zones along with the BDOs of respective blocks.
3. Telephone Numbers have been made available to the Department of IFCD, RWD/Water Resource Department and Police stations to intimate about the adverse weather
4. BSNL, DTO, Roing has been requested to keep the lines in order at the time of calamity
5. Daily report of rainfall is being obtained from the BDOs/COs/IFCD/Water Resource Department
6. The Executive Engineer of Irrigation Division has been intimated to report Gauge reading of the rivers, daily during flood and to keep drainage clean
7. The Executive Engineer of IFCD has been reported to repair all weak points/ breaches caused in the last flood and complete the left out work before the onset of monsoon, keep a close watch on the embankments passing through the habitations, remain alert with men and materials to face any eventualities
8. The Superintendent of Police has been intimated to monitor the installation of Police Wireless Stations and make arrangements for army assistance.
9. DF&CSO is directed by the District Magistrate or Deputy Commissioner to store adequate foodstuff at interior, vulnerable strategic and key areas for immediate relief.
10. NGOs have been identified at district level and task force been formed in collaboration with the district administration to carry out relief operation, rescue and evacuation, etc.
11. DAO has been intimated to supply HYV paddy seeds to the blocks as a part of agricultural measure.
12. DMO has arranged Medical Relief Camps and doctors have been deployed for the purpose and the CDMO has been directed to keep the mobile medical team ready for the purpose.
13. Indent of different vaccines has been taken to protect animals against contagious diseases, medicines supplied to the field functionaries for routine treatment as part of veterinary measures.
14. Executive Engineer, PWD & BRTF will look into the repairs of roads, bridges, concrete steel work and make other necessary arrangements as per requirement

5.5 Disaster Specific Capability Analysis with the Human Resources and Skills

All the line departments such as Health, Veterinary, Irrigation, Police, Electrical, PWD, RWSS, DUDA, DRDA etc. are instructed to stay prepared with the equipments and manpower before the specified disaster seasons. They will give a list of their resources and requirements to the Deputy Commissioner well in advance so that proper preparatory measures will be at place. The NCC, NSS and Paramilitary Forces will have to prepare a list of task force for the rescue, evacuation and relief operation. They will be provided with a relief kit each and a training manual. Training should be conducted at the District, Block and village levels to ensure that the awareness for disaster mitigation is built up among the communities. Mock drill should be conducted in anticipation of disasters to enhance the skills of the task force.

5.6 Public and Private Sector Resource Inventory and Capability Analysis:

The detailed information on the resource inventory with regard to private and public distribution system, traders, list of CBOs and NGOs and list of financial institutions for the requirement has been enclosed in ANNEXURE-VI.