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Text Box: INTRODUCTION East Coast Railway runs along the East Coast of Indian Peninsula and connects the mineral rich tribal district of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh & Chattisgarh with a costal corridor. It is a part of Indian Railways corridor connecting Kolkata with Chennai. It also caters to two major seaports of India viz., Visakhapatnam and Paradeep. It serves as a connecting link between Southern and Western Districts of Orissa with coastal districts of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh through Railway network. East Coast Railway has a total network of 2,512.48 Kms out of which 1,231 Km route kilometers is electrified with 250 Stations. It has also a network of 91.34 route Kms of NG track that is under going gauge conversion. The main freight load consists of Coal, Iron Ore, Aluminum, Chromate & Manganese. Apart from Iron and Steel products of two Steel Plants at Visakhapatnam and Nilanchal Ispat Nigam Limited (NINL) at Kalinga Nagar and Aluminum products from NALCO. DISASTER MAGEMENT PLAN Railway Board's Safety Directorate vide their letter No. 2003/Safety-I/ 6/2 dated 29th September 2003 laid down the requirement of "Zonal Railway's Disaster Management Plan as follows : All Divisions and Zonal Railway HQ (including Metro Kolkata & Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) must devise their disaster management plan, if not already done taking into consideration the resources available with them, their neighbouring divisions/Zonal Railways, civil authorities, industrial units and Armed Force bases located in their territory. This would enable the Divisions/ Zonal Railways to muster the entire local resources in case of a major disaster/natural calamity. Zonal Railways Disaster Management plan should integrate all divisions and also to take into consideration adjacent railways' framework. PREPARATION OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN The Disaster Management Plan must inter-alia include 'who is responsible for what activities in detail'. i. Preparation and implementation of disaster management plan is the responsibility of concerned General Manager/Divisional Railway Manager. Authority to order. ii. ART/ARMV/Break Down crane - Chief Mechanical Engineer/Chief Motive Power Engineer (Running & Loco)/Sr. Divisional Mechanical Engineer/Divisional Mechanical Engineer, etc. are authorized to order BK, Down crane, ART & ARMV. iii. Senior most railway officer at the site of the accident shall be the designated Site Manager. iv. Management of rescue operations - Primarily Mechanical and Medical Departments. Assistance to be provided by all railway-men (irrespective of their department) as needed. v. Relief operations including care for the dead - Commercial, Medical & RPF Departments. vi. Communication network - Telecom Department. vii. Crowd control and law & order at site - RPF. viii. State police clearance for restoration - RPF. ix. Rolling stock - Mechanical Department. x. Fixed infrastructure like Track, Over Head Equipment, Signaling system, etc. departments concerned. xi. Maintenance of SPART / ART & ARM V Rolling Stock/Break Down cranes including rail-cum-road and road mobile emergency vehicle etc. - Mechanical Department. xii. Maintenance of equipment kept in SP ART/ART/ARM V for rescue and restoration operations - departments concerned. xiii. Media Management at site a. Site Manager shall be the chief spokesman at site and can be assisted by the branch officers concerned, if needed. b. PR/Commercial Department to look after the media needs at site. xiv. Checklist for the officers & supervisors must be issued in the form of a pocket booklet indicating DOs and DON'Ts for the benefit of : a. First official reaching the site of accident b. Senior most officer at the site. c. Divisional/HQ control organization. d. Station Manager/Station Master. The Disaster Management Plans must be reviewed and updated in the month of January every year.

 

CHAPTERS

1.   Disasters

2.   Availability of Resources

3.   ARMVs/ARTs Preparedness

4.   An Over View

5.   Instant Action Team

6.   First Responder

7.   Officers at Division & HQ

8.   Co-ordination Centre

9.   Asst.  from adj.  Divisions/Zones

10. Site Management Plan - I

11. Site Management Plan - II

12. Site Management Plan - III

13. Passenger Care

14. Media Management Plan

15. Fire & Other Accidents

16. Training & Mock Drill

17. Cyclone Management

18. Earth Quake

19. Addendum To Communication Arrangement

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