Odisha: 6 Districts Participate In Tsunami Preparedness Mock Drill

Bhubaneswar: The annual mock drill for tsunami preparedness in the India Ocean region took place at the Andaman Sea on Tuesday that witnessed participation of as many as 6 coastal districts of Odisha, informed the Special relief Commissioner, Pradeep Kumar Jena.

The mock drill was conducted virtually on the International Day for Disaster Reduction today.

As per the SRC, OSDMA, Collectors, ADMs, BDOs, Tehsildars and Sarpanchs of six districts - Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Ganjam -participated in the drill.

“It was a table-top exercise that focussed on Information Dissemination,” said Jena.

“The sole purpose of this year’s drill was to measure how quickly and effectively a tsunami warning can reach to the village level,” added the SRC.
We have sounded sirens at 122 alert centres three times today; at 9:30am, 9:45am and 10:00am.

Emergency alert messages were also sent from State Emergency Operation Centre to check the effectiveness of the system

“We have also tried to reach the people through, social media, fax and e-mails to see the effectiveness of information dissemination,” added Jena.

Taking pride in Odisha’s disaster management system, Jena reminded that, “Venkatraipur in Ganjam and Nolia Sahi in Jagatsinghpur have been recognised by the UNESCO for being the only two villages in the entire Indian Ocean region to be completely tsunami ready.’

(Edited By Bikram Keshari Jena)

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