CIVIL DEFENCE

Civil Defence is an effort to protect the citizens of a state measures not amounting to actual combat for providing protection to any person, property, place against hostile attacks and during internal disturbances 

CIVIL DEFENCE IS FORMED UNDER “CIVIL DEFENCE ACT, 1968”

It uses the principles of emergency operations: mitigation, prevention, and preparedness for disaster as also for response and relief after disaster.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

• To save life
• Minimize damage to property
• To maintain continuity of production
• To keep up morale of the public
• To keep maintain law & order.

ROLE ENVISAGED FOR CIVIL DEFENCE (AS PER HIGH POWER COMMITTEE REPORT) 

PRE- DISASTERS

• Educating the community
• Awareness in schools
• Sensitizing Govt. Servants as well as residents
• Involving PSUS and its employees
• Self capacity building

DURING DISASTERS

• Assisting in taking precautionary measures whenever any advance warning is received about any natural disaster
• Helping in evacuation of population to less vulnerable areas
• Launching search and rescue operations
• Providing first aid to injured and transporting them to medical centers
• Setting up “Information and Guidance Centers” for providing information regarding missing persons, injured, etc., and also information about the nature of facilities and assistance available to affected people

AFTER DISASTERS

• Participating in distribution of relief material to affected people
• Assisting police/traffic police in ensuring smooth movement of emergency vehicles in the affected areas
• Helping the local administration in assessing the extent of loss to life and property