Aim: Strengthening damage and loss assessment system in Gujarat

AIM
OBJECTIVES
SUB OBJECTIVES

TASKS/PARAMETERS
DATA REQD. / SOURCES
Damage and loss information of Floods 2003
Damage and loss information of Earthquake of 2001
Damage and loss information of Super Cyclone of 1998
To study the natural hazards
(Earthquake, Cyclone, Drought, Flood,
Damage and loss information of Famine 2002-03
etc) in terms of the destruction,
Damage and loss information of Famine 2000-01
Understand the vulnerability vulnerability, damage to Gujarat
Damage and loss information of Floods of 1998
of Gujarat
Damage and loss information of Famine 1993-94
Damage and loss information of Earthquake of 1956
Damage and loss information of Civil Strife 2002
To study the manmade hazards
Damage and loss information of Train accidents
vulnerability of Gujarat
Damage and loss information of Industrial accidents
The manuals of the DA
To study the existing DA formats developed by the revenue dept.
The no. of assessors employed and the time given to cover the
To under stand the existing Damage
geographical area
Assessment (DA) methods
Details of the information covered
Sectors, which were covered by the assessors
Information from the Relief Commissioner and Revenue Dept
Commissioning agency, which has facilitated the assessment and the
purpose
To understand the purposes for
Was this a part of the relief/rehabilitation/reconstruction
conducting the DA
Were the displaced people consulted/covered?
Is the primary information collected from the households?
What is the detail of the assessment
Why isthis dept. commissioed this assessment
Where did the funding come from
What is the purpose - relief/rehabilitation/reconstruction?
To understand which department is
Were the assessors from the same department?
carrying out the DA for various disasters
What are the capacities of the assessors from this department
Is the department provided any technical training to the assessors?
If yes, who provided it?
What is the purpose of the agencies that have commissioned/carried
out the assessment
To understand all the agencies that were Was this a mandate to assess the damage as a part of the funding
involved in DA and the purpose
Was this assessment done to derive further information?
Was this assessment fed to any other analysis
What si the final use of the assessment?
Who is the senior most officer that is overloking the process of DA?
Who is the executive officer who monitored the process of DA
What is the rank and experience of the executive officer on the field
Damage Assessment
What is the experience and the rank of the lowest rank officer on the
Methodology
What is the hierarchy in compiling the DA field
information at both the state and the
What is the training inputs given to the assessing officer
district level
What is the type of gear/eqquipment provided to the assessor
Was this a part of the relief work?
Are the assessors expected to accomplish any other task apart from the
DA
How were the assessors selscted for the DA
Selection process of the assessors for
How much time were they expected to do the DA and what is the time
the DA
gap between the successive DA
What is the rank and experience of the officers
Who had prepared the DA formats
Were the formats tested?
Since how long the formats have been used
Were there any changes made to the formats recently after any disaster
Preparation of the DA methods and the
to incorporate any modifications?
formats to be followed
Are there any specific formats for each sector?

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Aim: Strengthening damage and loss assessmentPreparation
system in of
Gujarat
formats
to
be
followed
Strengthening
AIM
OBJECTIVES
SUB OBJECTIVES
damage and loss
assessment system in
Gujarat
To understand the areas of deviation in
the DA information and the actual
information
To augment the DA methods in order to
minimise the deviation
To understand the processes and the
assumptions involved in the DA
Understand the various purposes of the
Loss Assessment (LA)
To study the LA commissioning and
methods

TASKS/PARAMETERS
Are there any specific formats for specific purposes relief/rehab/reconst.?
Are there any specific formats for different disaster?
Who compiles the DA info at the district/state level

DATA REQD. / SOURCES

Is there any mechanism to recheck the DA information at a later period?

Are any rechecks/verification studies done
How is the disputes taken care of?
What is the type of deviation?
How much deviation is there?
Are there any checks to contain the deviation?
What are the assumptions in assessing the DA?
Is there any sampling involved? If yes, details.
What is the main purpose of the LA
Is it initiated by the state govt. or demanded by the central govt.?
How is the DA converted into the LA
Is another assessment carried out for LA other than the DA
Why is the LA needed
Who commissions LA and who carries out?
What is the capacity of the assessors
Who selects the assessors and how?

To understand the capacity of the

Is any training imparted to the assessors based on the requirement?
assessors and the training given to them
Is it a periodical job to carry out LA
What is the data that is used for the LA of various types
Is the data collected afresh or analysed for LA based on the existing
data?
To analyse the baseline data which is
used for the LA
Is any department compiles the info reqd for the LA periodically?
To understand the various methods used for various types of LA, viz.
earthquake, cyclone, drought, flood, etc.
How to build-in the indirect losses into the LA
To study the scope of calculating the
To incorporate the indirect losses into the regular LA
indirect loses into the state domestic
product
What are the assumptions made in the LA
Is there any separate wing under the Revenue (or any other)
department for assessing the D&L?
To understand the existing institutional
How is the data from all the sectors compiled at one department?
framework of D&LA
What is the institutional network of D&L assessment?
What is the total strength of the D&LA team
Inventory of the departments and the ranks of the officers involved in
D&LA
Which department takes the lead of the D&LA? Which department will
won the methods proposed by this study?
Institutional Mechanism and
System for DALA
Is the existing framework capable of taking care of the additional burden
What are the departments involved and of carrying out the D&LA and capacity building of the future assessors?
what is their hierarchy
To study the loose ends in the process of D&LA and compilation
Loss Assessment
Methodology

To understand how the Damage and Loss Assessments could be

combined into the regular institutional frame work of each department
To propose the augmentation for the existing Institutional structure or
propose a new structure

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Inventory of the existing assessors with

their technical and academic
qualifications
To prepare a training program to suit the
needs of each person involved

Identify the potential of the assessors and also areas of improvement

Inventory of the hierarchy of the officials involved
Identifying the training needs of the assessors
Whom to train? Regular training for all the staff periodically or selected
officers updated regularly?
Which department can take the task of the capacity building?
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Sector or sub-sector
General loss assessment
Agriculture

Animal husbandry

Irrigation

Industry

Commerce

Housing and human settlements

Public buildings
Education and culture
Health
Water supply

Electricity

Road transport

Railroad transport
Ports and airports
Environment
Economic statistics and planning

Institution
Revenue Department
Relief Commissioner
Ministry of Agriculture
Directorate of Agriculture
Directorate of Horticulture
Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC)
Warehousing Corporation of India
Food Corporation of India (FCI)
District Agricultural Officers
Ministry of Agriculture
Directorate of Animal Husbandry
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
Ministry of Irrigation
Ground Water Resources Development Corporation
Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited
Kalpasar Project
Department of Industries and Mining
Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC)
Gujarat Industrial Investment Corporation (GIIC)
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Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Ministry of Trade and Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Urban Development and Urban Housing Department (UDUH)
Department of Rural Development
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)
Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA)
Department of Roads and Buildings
Public Works Department (PWD)
Department of Education
Directorate of Primary Education Program (DPEP)
Department of Health
Department of Rural Development
Department of Water Resources
GWSSB
Ground Water Resources Development Corporation
Gujarat Water Infrastructure Limited
Sardar Sarovar and Narmada Nigam Limited
Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB)
Ahmedabad Electricity Company (AEC)
Gujarat Energy Research Institute (GERI)
Ministry of Surface Transport
Road and Buildings Department
Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC)
Department of Railways, GOI
Port Authority/Airport Authority, GOI
Department of Environment and Forests
Department of Economics and Statistics