Lok Sabha Question No. 5258 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-27
Subject: Training by NDRF
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: T.G. VENKATESH BABU, ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5258

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 27 TH  MARCH, 2018/ CHAITRA 6, 1940 (SAKA)

TRAINING BY NDRF

5258.

SHRI VENKATESH BABU T.G.: SHRI ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  National  Disaster  Response  Force  (NDRF)  has  trained  a large  number  of  people  across  the  country  for  preparedness  against manmade and natural disasters;

- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise;
- (c)  whether the NDRF will take such type of initiatives to train more and more people in the country against natural disasters;
- (d) if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the other steps taken/being taken by the Government for resilience and better preparedness against disasters?

ANSWER

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

(a)  and (b):    Yes, Madam. The details of various trainings conducted by the NDRF are as under:-

|   Sl. No. | Name of Training                                                                                   |   Total Beneficiaries |
|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|
|         1 | SDRF Training including basic training to SDRF personnel. State/UT-wise details is at Appendix-A . |                 12046 |
|         2 | Disaster Management training imparted to Railway personnel.                                        |                   959 |
|         3 | Training imparted to Associate National Cadet Corps (NCC) Officers (ANOs)/NCC                      |                  2403 |

- (c): Yes, Madam.

(d): NDRF is engaged in capacity building of the various stake holders and the community at large. So far NDRF has conducted 7,832 Familiarization Exercise, Community Awareness Programme and School Safety Programme (SSP) in the area of responsibility of each NDRF Battalion in which 56,96,408 people have participated.

Besides above, the mock exercise have been conducted for various stake holders like, Indian Railways, Metro, Major Accident Hazards (MAH) Units and Public Sector Units; as per details given below:

|   Sl. No. | Forms of Capacity Building.                          |   No. of Exercise conducted | Total Beneficiaries   |
|-----------|------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------|
|         1 | Mock Exercise with Railways.                         |                         120 | 41,300                |
|         2 | Mock Exercise with Metro                             |                          02 | 275                   |
|         3 | Mock Exercise with Major Accident Hazards(MAH) Units |                         239 | 72,044                |
|         4 | Mock Exercise with Public Sector Units.              |                         744 | 3,80,807              |

(e): Preparedness is a continuous process and it is regularly monitored keeping in mind various factors such as requirement, availability of funds and  manpower, training  capacity,  battalion  infrastructure,  etc.  Details  of the steps taken up by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) are given at Appendix-B.

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## STATE/UT-WISE BASIC SDRF TRAINING

| Sl. No.   | State             | Total   |
|-----------|-------------------|---------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 416     |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 402     |
| 3         | Assam             | 687     |
| 4         | A & N Island      | 350     |
| 5         | Bihar             | 559     |
| 6         | Chandigarh        | 126     |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh      | 25      |
| 8         | Daman & Diu       | 51      |
| 9         | Delhi             | 30      |
| 10        | Gujarat           | 841     |
| 11        | Haryana           | 201     |
| 12        | Himachal Pradesh  | 22      |
| 13        | J&K               | 151     |
| 14        | Karnataka         | 75      |
| 15        | Kerala            | 270     |
| 16        | Madhya Pradesh    | 462     |
| 17        | Maharashtra       | 1,268   |
| 18        | Manipur           | 151     |
| 19        | Meghalaya         | 170     |
| 20        | Mizoram           | 870     |
| 21        | Nagaland          | 208     |
| 22        | Odisha            | 285     |
| 23        | Punjab            | 696     |
| 24        | Rajasthan         | 646     |
| 25        | Sikkim            | 173     |
| 26        | Tamil Nadu        | 259     |
| 27        | Telangana         | 73      |
| 28        | Tripura           | 145     |
| 29        | Uttarakhand       | 445     |
| 30        | Uttar Pradesh     | 710     |
| 31        | Jharkhand         | 0       |
| 32        | West Bengal       | 646     |
| 33        | Lakshadweep       | 34      |
| TOTAL     |                   | 11,447  |

## L.S.US.Q.NO.5258 FOR 27.03.2017

## Steps taken / being taken by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) for resilience and better preparedness against disasters

1.  The  Scheme  for  Strengthening  of  State  Disaster  Management  Authorities(SDMAs) and Disaster Management Authorities
2.  Collaboration of NDMA  with  United  Nations  International  Strategy  for  Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
3.  International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure in New Delhi
4.  National Workshop on Preparedness, Mitigation and Management of Heat Wave.
5.  Geo Technical Investigation for Seismic Microzonation of Indian Land Mass
6.  Development of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Map of India(PSHA)
7.  Seismic Vulnerability of Assessment of Building Types in India.
8.  Preparation of Upgraded Earthquake Hazards Maps and Atlases.
9.  Soil Piping.
10.  Earthquake Disaster Risk Indexing (EDRI) for important cities and 1 Model District in Seismic Zone IV and V areas.
11.  Mobile Radiation Detection Scheme(MRDS)
12.  Establishment of Geographical Information System (GIS) Server and creation of Geodatabase in NDMA
13.  Basic  Training  on  Chemical  Biological  Radiological  Nuclear  (CBRN)  for  Airport Emergency Handlers
14.  Development and Evaluation of Low-Cost Landslide Monitoring Solution
15.  Training on Landslide Mitigation and Detailed Project Report (DPR) Preparation
16.  Disaster  Management  Training  for  Associated  NCC  Officers  (ANOs),  Civil  Defence, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan(NYKS)
17.  State  Disaster  Response  Force  (SDRF)  Training  for  Trainers(ToT)  in  Disaster Response
18.  NDMA-IGNOU Pilot Project on Capacity Building on Disaster Management
19.  National School Safety Programme
20.  Capacity building in Trauma Life Support and care in 10 States of India
21.  The Scheme for Training of Community Volunteers in Disaster Response in Selected 30 most flood prone districts of India (Apada Mitra)

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