Bhubaneswar: Odisha in collaboration with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) organised a State level Mock Exercise on Chemical and Industrial Disaster Management today in identified 24 industrial locations of 16 districts.
These districts are Angul, Dhenkanal, Balasore, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kurdha, Koraput, Rayagada, Bolangir, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundergarh and Mayurbhanj. The basic objective of this exercise was to streamline emergency response, identify gap areas in detection, early warning, alert, evacuation, emergency response & containment at industries and local level.
The exercise was organized at industry locations based on scenarios related to the chemicals and hazardous materials being dealt by the factories. During the exercise, the industries responded to the situation as per their response mechanism, available equipment, and standard operating procedures. Additional resources like fire brigade, medical teams etc. were also mobilized by the respective District Administration. Based on threat situation, nearby villagers were also evacuated to the nearby identified safe shelters.
In addition to the top management and incident repose teams of the industries, officials of district and block administration, district level line departments, local police, fire & emergency service, medical teams, PRI members and community volunteers were also involved in the exercise. Six (06) specialized teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), 3rd Bn, Mundli and 12 ODRAF teams were deployed to various industries for the mock exercise.
Senior officers of District Administration were deployed to each industry site as Incident Commanders to coordinate the response activities and mobilization of resource required. The state level technical observers were deployed from organizations like Directorate of Factories and Boilers, State Pollution Control Board, Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, CRPF & CISF. During the mock exercise Shri Aditya Kumar, Commandant (Retd.), NDMAsupervised the operations at the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) along with Officials of OSDMA and office of SRC.
After completion of the exercise a debriefing session was also organized through virtual mode at State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), Bhubaneswarwith the participation ofAdministration of 16 districts, representative ofidentified industries, nominated Incident Commanders and Technical Observers to discuss on various observations and feedback. The briefing session was chaired by Padmanav Behera, Additional Special Relief Commissioner.
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