Lok Sabha Question No. 1062 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-22
Subject: Earthquake Vulnerability
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNPURIA, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1062

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 22 ND  NOVEMBER, 2016/AGRAHAYANA 1, 1938 (SAKA)

EARTHQUAKE VULNERABILITY

1062.  SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

## Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether 95 per cent of the 304 million households in India are vulnerable to earthquake in different degrees;
- (b)  whether  lack  of  information  about  earthquake  vulnerability  has  resulted  in lack of planning in constructing earthquake resistant houses;
- (c) if so, the details thereof and the corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard;
- (d) whether the National Disaster Management Authority and the Union Housing and  Urban  Poverty  Alleviation  Ministry  have  prepared  maps  listing  earthquake vulnerability of localities right down to the block level;
- (e) if so, the details thereof;
- (f) the advantages that the people will get out of these maps along with the other steps taken by the Government to make the people aware of the materials to be used in building houses to avoid earthquake disaster; and
- (g) whether there is any proposal to introduce insurance policy for rehabilitation of victims of earthquakes and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI KIREN RIJIJU)

## RS.US.Q.No.1062 FOR 22.112016

(a) to (g) Bureau of Indian Standards has mapped the country with seismic zones, essentially based on seismicity of the region, maximum intensities experienced in the past and the seismo-tectonics of the region concerned. According to the latest version of this classification of Bureau of Indian Standards [IS 1893 (Part I):2002], Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, 58.6 percent of areas in the country falls under earthquake zones, which is grouped into four seismic zones viz. Zone- II (41.4% areas), III (30.4% areas), IV (17.3% areas) and V  (10.9% areas). Of these, Zone V is seismically the most prone region, while zone II is the least.

Guidelines have been published by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)  for  the  design  and  construction  of  earthquake  resistant  structures  to minimize the loss of life and damage to property caused by earthquakes. These guidelines  are  in  wide  circulation  amongst  the  public  and  the  administrative authorities responsible for the design and construction of earthquake resistant structures in earthquake prone areas.

As part of pre-disaster  preparedness  measure, NDMA  with  the  technical assistance  of  BMTPC,  has  brought  out  upgraded  Earthquake  Hazard  Maps  and Atlas for the Country upto Districts level with sub-district boundary.  The updated Earthquake Hazard Maps and Atlases are containing the details of earthquake hazard   zoning maps up  to  district  level  with  sub-division  boundary,  Seismo

## RS.US.Q.No.1062 FOR 22.11.2016

Tectonic,  housing  &  population  data,  Railway  Lines,  Golden  Expressway  & National  Highway  and  Rivers  &  Water-body.  The  maps  and  atlas  have  been distributed to all States/ UTs during July 2016.

Government of India and other state Disaster Management Authorities, have also taken  up  various  initiatives  to  educate  and  bring  awareness  amongst  general public and school children on the general aspects of earthquakes, their impacts and measures to mitigate losses caused by them.

With regard to rehabilitation, it is mentioned that this Ministry has no proposal under consideration to introduce insurance policy for rehabilitation of victims of earthquake. The concerned State Governments provide assistance for rehabilitation  from  their  Plan/  own  resources,  to  the  families  affected  due  to natural  calamities  including  earthquake,  and  also  based  on  the  availability  of Government land as per their existing land policy.

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