Port Blair, Aug. 28: A Table Top Exercise (TTEx) was conducted today under the Chairmanship of Shri A.S.P.S. Raviprakash, IAS, Secretary (Disaster Management), A&N Administration in coordination with the National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, New Delhi with all line Departments of A&N Administration, District Administrations (South Andaman, N&M Andaman and Nicobar), Armed Forces, NDRF, Police and other stakeholders of A&N Islands in the Conference Hall of Aapda Prabandhan Bhawan, Port Blair to finalize scenario and other activities for State Level Mock Exercise (SLME)–2024 to be conducted in A&N Islands on 30.08.2024.
The chair welcomed representative of NDMA and all participants of TTEx and explained the objectives of SLME – 2024 and emphasized the active participation and response of all the stakeholders in the TTEx and proposed SLME-2024 as per their roles and responsibilities to manage disaster in A&N Islands. He also explained the vulnerability profile of A&N Islands towards Earthquake, Tsunami and other disasters and stressed upon the active participation of all stakeholders to test and check Incident Response System (IRS) of A&N Islands during this SLME -2024.
Comdt. Aditya Kumar (Retd.), Sr. Consultant, NDMA, New Delhi briefed about the mock exercise scenario & objective of Table Top Exercise to all stakeholders. During the Table Top Exercise, various scenarios of Earthquake & Tsunami were presented and preparedness &responses of all District Administrations and all Emergency Support Functionaries of A&N Islands which are to be checked and tested in the SLME -2024 were reviewed. The Sr. Consultant, NDMA expressed satisfaction on the preparedness of the UT towards the conduct of SLME -2024 and to manage disasters in ANI. He also stressed on the community participation and trainings to community to build their capacity to tackle and manage disasters in golden hours.
Shri Arjun Sharma, DC (SA), Shri Azharuddin Zahiruddin Quazi, Director (DM), Smt. Niharika Bhatt, SP (SA) and other Sr. Officers attended the exercise in person and the Dy. Commissioners of N&M Andaman and Nicobar attended this TTEx virtually.
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