Hyderabad: A state emergency operations centre at Hyderabad and district emergency operations centres at the district headquarters will be set up by the year-end. The state, which has a 972 km long coast, is prone to cyclones brewing up in the Bay of Bengal. Further, the 2 major rivers, Godavari and Krishna, flowing through the state, have floods occurring frequently to them or their tributaries at one place or the other.
As of now, the disaster management office in the Secretariat is functioning as a control room for the state and the district collectorates as control rooms in the districts. But there has been no excusive set-up for the control room. |
