Overview

• A high-level symposium at Delhi’s Manekshaw Centre convened senior leaders from NDMA, the Indian Army, state governments, scientific institutions to review hazard profiles, strategic response plans.
• Disaster managers will war-game response plans in a region-wide tabletop exercise tomorrow involving representatives from 11 Delhi districts, five in Haryana, two in Uttar Pradesh.
• The final phase on August 1 will see simultaneous full-scale earthquake simulations across 18 districts deploying sirens, mobile command posts, relief camps, medical aid posts, casualty evacuations, search operations by NDRF, civil defence, armed forces personnel.
• Residents have been advised not to panic during the drills, which will include visible deployment of ambulances, fire tenders, police vehicles, army trucks, public address systems to signal the start of exercises.
• Exercise Suraksha Chakra marks the first mega-scale integrated disaster drill in the National Capital Region under a whole-of-government mandate to institutionalize district-level preparedness, resilience.