Delhi Plans to Raise SDRF, Incident Response System for Disaster Management

CM Had Proposed Setting Up an Emergency Ops Centre

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government is planning to have an active 'Incident Response System' that will kick in during the time of a disaster, even as there are also plans to raise a State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to tackle critical situations in the national capital, officials said on Tuesday.

According to a senior official, the government is working on developing a proposal for having an Incident Response System, which will comprise officials from different departments.

"Whenever a disaster happens, the steps include evacuation, transporting people to shelter homes, taking care of their food and health needs. The departments that are involved in this exercise more or less remain the same," the official said.