To deal better with disasters, Andhra Pradesh will soon have a customised, online decision making command centre to deal with natural disasters as well as other incidents.
Called AP Critical Operations, Strategic Management and Incident Management (APCOSMIC), any information related to disasters or incidents like a fire, a road accident or flooding will first come to the command centre. From there, it will be conveyed to the department concerned.
It will start functioning from March and will be fully functional in a year, according to Commissioner of AP State Disaster Management Authority Prasanna Kumar Venkatesh.
Such systems are available only in Europe and the U.S.A.
“A Geo-spatial lab offering multi-hazard risk assessment models would also be set up,” he said on the sidelines of a workshop on disaster management at GITAM Deemed to be University on Monday. It would analyse risks in a project.
Giving an example, he said it would give models of what would happen in a specific time and the areas it would affect in case flooding of Kondaveetu Vagu took place.