{"id":66723,"date":"2020-10-17T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T06:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=66723"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:23:30","slug":"ndma-guidelines-on-urban-flood-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ndma-guidelines-on-urban-flood-management\/","title":{"rendered":"National Disaster Management (NDMA) Guidelines on Urban Flood Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, NDMA had issued guidelines on Urban Flood Management in India<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a National Hydro-meteorological Network.<\/li>\n<li>The guidelines say that for providing early warning, the Central Water Commission (CWC) should maximize the real-time hydro-meteorological network to cover all urban centres to effectively deal with the problem of urban flooding<\/li>\n<li>Use of Doppler Weather Radarsto be expanded to cover all urban areas in the country<\/li>\n<li>An inventory of the existing stormwater drainage system to be prepared. The inventory will be both watershed-based and ward-based.<\/li>\n<li>Catchment to be the basis for planning and designing the stormwater drainage systems in all ULBs<\/li>\n<li>All future road and rail bridges in cities crossing drain to be designed such that they do not block the flows resulting in backwater effect<\/li>\n<li>Every building in an urban area must have rainwater harvesting as an integral component of the building utility.<\/li>\n<li>Low-lying areas in cities have to be reserved for parks and other low-impact human activities.<\/li>\n<li>Encroachments on the drain should attract penal action.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-monsoon desilting of all major drains to be completed by March 31 each year.<\/li>\n<li>Urban Flooding has to be dealt as a separate disaster, de-linking it from riverine floods which affect the rural areas.<\/li>\n<li>Suitable interventions in the drainage system like traps, trash racks can be provided to reduce the amount of solid waste going into the storm sewers.<\/li>\n<li>Inlets to be provided on the roads to drain water to the roadside drains and these have to be designed based on current national and international practices.<\/li>\n<li>Every building in an urban area must have rainwater harvesting as an integral component of the building utility.<\/li>\n<li>Concept of Rain Gardens to be incorporated in planning for public parks and on-site stormwater management for larger colonies and sites that are to be developed.<\/li>\n<li>Flood hazard assessments should be done on the basis of projected future scenarios of intensities and duration of the rainfall and land-use changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, NDMA had issued guidelines on Urban Flood Management in India Create a National Hydro-meteorological Network. The guidelines say that for providing early warning, the Central Water Commission (CWC) should maximize the real-time hydro-meteorological network to cover all urban centres to effectively deal with the problem of urban flooding Use of Doppler Weather Radarsto&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ndma-guidelines-on-urban-flood-management\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Disaster Management (NDMA) Guidelines on Urban Flood Management<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":9,"cached_at":1698366818,"cached_date":1698660866},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}