The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is in the process of updating monsoon contingency plan (MCP) through consultation with all the stakeholders and has prepared the draft which would be presented during the 5th pre-monsoon co-ordination meeting to be held on June 15, 2011.
In case of natural calamity, the authority is the focal agency at the federal level for co-ordination, implementation of the complete cycle of disaster management ranging from prevention, mitigation, preparedness, rescue, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation. In this backdrop and on the basis of lessons learned from 2010 devastating floods, the NDMA has undertaken a comprehensive flood disaster management strategy including conduct of field visits for evaluating the progress on the repair and maintenance of the flood protection infrastructure as well as to ascertain the progress on the damaged infrastructure.
In order to sensitise the provincial departments including provincial disaster management authorities, irrigation and powers departments of the provinces, the NDMA has issued/suggested guidelines as well as a list of actions required to be completed before the on set of the forthcoming monsoon season.
The provinces have been requested to take extra precautionary measures for ensuring quality of maintenance work underway in different parts of the country and they were also requested to create monitoring and vigilance mechanism on 24/7 basis during the flood season in order to timely identify any untoward situation and taking necessary remedial actions before the hand.
The provinces have also been requested to finalise their respective flood fighting plans at provincial and district levels in co-ordination with respective armed forces formations so that all resources can be mobilised at shortest possible notice in case of any disaster situation.-PR
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