Kargil 12 :- Maj. Gen. Sudhir Bahl (Retd), Consultant (ME&IRS), NDMA, Government of India, today chaired a joint virtual meeting of Kargil and Leh districts to review arrangements ahead of Table Top Exercise (TTE) on August 20 and mock drill exercise on earthquakes, cloudbursts and GLOF disasters on August 22 to be held in both districts.
Deputy Commissioner/CEO, LAHDC, Kargil, Shrikant Suse; SSP Kargil, Shree Raam; ADC, Kargil Suhail Ahmed; Chief Engineer, PHE/I&FC Maqbool Hussain; Principal GDC Kargil, Amina Qari; Nodal officer project Vijayak (BRO), Rohit Arora; District Program Officer ICDS Nargis Bano; CMO Kargil, Dr Liyaqat Ali; SDMs, EO MC Kargil, Razia Khatoon; Dysp Telecom Riyaz Ahmad Bhat; HQ Assistant to DC Office, Arifa Iqba; ARTO Kargil, Khadim Hussain; AD DIPR Kargil, Raza Ali; Tehsildars, Engineers, Police and Army Officers, district officers of other concerned departments and other concerned officers and officials attended the meeting at Conference Hall Baroo, Kargil.
It was informed that the mock exercise for earthquake, cloudburst and GLOF disasters will be held in Kargil district on 22 August where different departments will exercise a mock drill to prepare themselves for emergency disaster situations.
Maj. Gen. Sudhir Bahl enquired about arrangements being made for the upcoming mock exercise aimed to make every department in ready mode and their coordination with other stakeholders in order to tackle any kind of disaster situation. The Maj. Gen. gave an overview of the table top exercise and mock exercise.
ADC Kargil briefed about preparations for the mock exercise on earthquake disaster.
The mock exercise is aimed to evaluate warning systems, alert protocols, Emergency Operation Center functioning and communications, ability to build situation awareness and allocate resources, identification and aggregation of responders, ability to suitably select sites for Incident Response System (IRS) facilities and activate them, composition of Incident Response Team (IRT), response, search and rescue effort, evacuation/casualty evacuation, integration of all types of responders, hospitals cope with casualties, surge capacity, emergency, re-build, Emergency Support Function (ESF) form, inter-departmental teams/groups/task forces including for response, restoration and ability to receive assistance and aid through road and air.
