5.4 Local self-government

1. The self-government will be responsible for coordinating evacuation and rescue operations in the respective local bodies.

2. Local self-government department should consider to set aside money from there on funds of all local self-government institutions for emergency disaster response.

3. The land revenue commissioner has to coordinate guidelines for relief camps described in Annexure 3. The local self-government institutions should appoint a charging officer to coordinate the running of relief camps and their other affairs.

5. The local self-government has prepared a framework for reducing the hazard of disaster unlike last year. The most important directions in the framework are given below. The police station, fire station, and taluk control room must be given the list and contact no. in accordance with the data in the framework.

A. Panchayat wise plot that is fit to run a relief camp

B. details about the locations and the category of people who might be hit by the serious hazard of the disaster are given below.

a. The residents of government land.

b. The residents in colonies and the residents in the shore of reverse or any water body.

c. Residents in the side of the field

d. Residents of hill valley and remote area.

e. Those who live in the houses hit by landslide and soil erosion in 2018and it is found unfit for the residents by the geological survey of India.

f. Those who live in the houses hit by landslide soil erosion and flood in 2019 and it is found unfit for residents by state and district disaster management authority.

g. The families in the government land whose houses are completely perished or uninhabitable.

h. Those who have not finished the reconstruction of the house by making use of relief funds.

C. The list and mobile no. and other details of the emergency response team are prepared by local self-government institutions.

D. The details of JCB, HITACHI, and HITACHI With chain belt, boats, and electric tree choppers are available in local self-government institutions with the names of its owners and their phone numbers.

6. Priority has to be given to those who come under 5.4 (5) (B) (a to h) list when evacuation is conducted on the basis of warnings. And village officers should confirm that this priority order is determined by Local self govt. institutions.

a. If the details of such residents are not included in the local self govt. Disaster management program at present, it should be prepared with the election booth level officers and the concerned local self govt. institute.

b. Give instructions to local self govt. institutes that, when evacuation is being conducted in a particular district /Taluk/Area, priority has to be given according to this list.

c. If today is yellow alert and tomorrow is Orange/Red alert, today evening itself, the people who live in the disaster-prone area have to be shifted to nearby camps. This has to be done by Local self-government institutes and village office.

d. People who come under 5.4 (5) (B) (a to h), should be shifted to nearby camp if orange alert is announced in that area.

e. If any of the family requests to relocate to the camp at any time, then we should contact Revenue Department for the same.

f. if an orange alert is issued regarding the water level in the river flowing through the local self-government department, then it is mandatory to evacuate the persons in the table given in 5.4 (5) (B) (a to h) to the camp.

g. Work with the Police force, Fire rescue Department, revenue department to clear the 2018 & 2019 flood victims in the immediate aftermath of red alert.

h. For this purpose, the mobile no. of such families has to be kept in the Local self-government institute and village office.

7. In the situation of evaluation and rescue operation, pregnant women, children, handicapped, and differently – abled ones should be given priority.

8. Establishment of control rooms should be done from June to December at all local bodies. This control room will be useful for the coordinating various disaster response activities in the respective local bodies.

9. To make sure that the buildings found by local self-government institutions for running camps are useful.

10. As far as the people who find shelter at night on the roadsides, in the open Veranda of shops, in bus stands are concerned as the rainy season is horrible. So, the local self-government institutions with the cooperation of the social justice department should arrange the facilities to sleep at night, to have supper, and to avoid that pathetic situation.

11. It should be ensured that there are no blocks and other obstacles for the flow of water in the major channels and canals with the help of the soil protection department and irrigation department. If there are any such blocks, it should be removed with immediate effect.

12. Use the officials of the Department of Fisheries and Conservation, the local engineering department and the irrigation department to remove the blockages in the streams.

13. The public should be instructed to cut off the tree and tree logs in the private land that might cause dangers per the law 2005, section 30 (2) (v) . It should be brought the attention of the public the persons and the private firms who are not following the instructions have sole responsibility to meet such danger and its consequences.

14. Haritha Keralam programme and employment assurance programme should be made use to clean ponds, canals, wells, and other water bodies. In order to guarantee water storage and water protection.

15. The Warning board should be erected on the ferry and beach where dangerous pool and whirlpool are developed.

16. There is a probability for the flashing flood and landslide through the roads across hilly. So the parking vehicles should be strictly prohibited like this area by fixing the warning board.

17. Needed measures should be taken for the smooth flow of water through the culvert and under the bridge in the hilly area

18. The insecure school building should be discovered through the primary fitness check-up of local self-government engineers. The education dept. should execute needed measures for the maintenance of such schools and by which academic year can be made fruitful. The schools which do not possesses fitness should not be functioned.

19. Insecure hospital buildings should be discovered through a primary fitness check-up of local self-government engineers in all hospitals. If there is any such hospital building, it should undergo maintenance work under the health dept. insecure hospital buildings must not be accessible for patients and officials.

20. The beehive and nests of wasp in bigger trees might be harmful to the public. So measures should be taken to prevent such accidents.

21. Those who are suffering from the adverse effect of calamity are reconstructing their houses in the same disaster-hit area should be given the permit of reconstruction in a day as per GO (Ms) No7/2018/DMD dated 21-06-2018.

22. The scale of rack and ruins of houses in notified disaster should be assessed in percentage as per Go (Ms) No:25/2019/DMD dated 23-08-2019. Land revenue commissioner will develop a mobile application and he/she will give detailed instructions. The scale of rack and ruins should be assessed by local self govt. engineering wing, administrative wing, and land revenue officials as part of data collection to the same mobile application.

a) No need to assess the value of the house or other home appliances. Financial aid can be sanctioned as per the rate of the percentage of destruction of the building. The value of the house or any other home appliances is not a criterion to sanction relief fund.

23. All advertisement companies and firms have to be instructed to ensure advertisement hoardings and old posters that they fixed wouldn't cause any casualty and loss in heavy wind.

24. In the situation of a disaster, steps should be taken to ensure the availability of pure water in all panchayats. This assistance can be sought out from water authority and Jala Nidhi.

25. The lower over bridges and culverts become obstacles for rescue operations and relief activities during floods in the region of Kuttanad, Alappuzha district. Such major obstacles should be taken away at least in the rainy season by the public work department with the help of the revenue department.

26. Local self-government institutions should spend their own fund for buying instruments and other requirements for the disinfection of water sources, purification of the area where water is stored, and mosquito eradication.

27. The water authority with the help of Jala Nidhi should collect the data about the irrigation project which may cause the hike of water level in the rainy season. Besides, if the water supply in a particular area is stopped, an alternative should already be arranged.

28. If there is no water purification facilities in nearby regions, an alternative should be arranged for the availability of drinkable water or the purification of water. Besides, the quality of water should be made sure by the purification process of the water authority.

29. If the flood prevents the water supply by tanker Lorries, 15-20 ltr jerry cans should be kept in the panchayat level to ensure the availability of pure water in the needy family.

30. Sufficient chlorine tablets should be kept to use in the needed situation. The public should be guided to drink only hot water throughout the rainy season.

31. To be prepared for the operations in the emergency as described in the disaster alleviation programme of local self govt.

32. The area-wise emergency activities should be assigned to the emergency response team in various local self-government institutions.

33. Steps should be taken with the help of irrigation dept. and agricultural dept. to provide sand filled coir sacks and geo tubes should be kept in order to protect houses located on the bank of the river or near the bund.

34. Sand-filled coir sacks and geo tubes should be kept ready to minimize the ruins of houses and cultivated lands. The rate contract should be invited and kept resolved as per Ltr No 33-2/2015-NDM -1-dated 17 April 2015 from the ministry of home affairs, the government of India. Its format is given in Handbook on Disaster Management -Volume -2-Emergency operations centers and Emergency Support Functions Plan, Kerala.

35. the rate contract should be invited and kept resolved as per the central govt 's Ltr No 33-2/2015 NDM -1 dated 17 April 2005 from the ministry of home affairs, the government of India for powerful pump set. Its format is available in Handbook on Disaster Management Volume 2-Emergency Operations Centres and Emergency Support Functions Plan -Kerala.

36. If local self govt. institutions, irrigation dept. and agricultural dept. have no their own fund in order to protect bund, protect houses on the seashore, panchayat, municipality, and corporation can spend 2lakhs, 3lakhs, and 5lakhs respectively from 2245-02-101-94-flood-other items for putting sand-filled coir sacks and geo tubes.

37. If it is needed, it can be used with the prior sanction of tahsildar. Tahsildar should convince and certify the minimisation of adverse effects by these efforts.