UP uses remote sensing to micro map floods for monsoon season
Lucknow: To understand and thereby prevent flooding during the monsoon season, the state govt, for the first time, has superimposed flood inundation maps generated through 20 years of remote sensing onto cadastral maps for micro-mapping of floods.
The information was provided by relief commissioner Bhanu Chandra Goswami at a meeting to review flood preparedness in the state chaired by chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh.
The chief secretary said that, as per the weather department's forecast, the monsoon is expected to break over eastern UP by June 20 and western UP by June 25.
In light of this, Singh said flood preparedness at the village level should be ensured based on micro-mapping.
He said that officials and personnel should be assigned duties at the flood control room and all flood posts should be established by June 20. A mock drill at the tehsil level will be conducted on June 26, and all 44 sensitive districts have to participate in it.
Singh directed officials to carry out inspections and repair work of flood-prone villages and embankments by June 20.
The sites for establishing flood shelters should be identified immediately, and adequate boats and other necessary resources should be pre-identified.
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"During floods, cooked food, clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, and fodder should be adequately provided in relief camps, and there should be no compromise on the quality of distributed relief materials," he said.
He further said that inlets and outlets of Amrit Sarovars should be cleaned, encroachments removed, and catchment areas improved. The emphasis was also placed on increasing awareness of water conservation under the 'Catch the Rain' campaign.
The relief commissioner informed the chief secretary that 44 districts, 118 tehsils, 2,500 villages, and 5,600 hamlets in the state are flood-sensitive.
Pre-deployment of rescue forces at the tehsil level was done for flood rescue, with 48 teams of 17 flood companies of PAC, 15 teams of SDRF, and 11 teams of NDRF pre-deployed in 74 highly sensitive tehsils.
"Over 10,000 trained disaster friends will assist in search and rescue operations. For flood management, 18 highly sensitive districts have been allocated 50 lakh each, 12 sensitive districts 25 lakh each, and 14 generally sensitive districts 10 lakh each," he said.
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