NATIONAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (NCMC)

Cabinet Secretary chaired National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) meeting on Cyclone Tauktae.

National Crisis Management Committee:

The NCMC is a committee set up by the Government of India in the wake of a natural calamity for effective coordination and implementation of relief measures and operations.
It is headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
In India, the NCMC and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) are the two major committees involved in top-level decision making with respect to Disaster Management (DM).

Key functions:

Overseeing the command, control and coordination of the disaster response.
Giving directions to the crisis management group as necessary.
The committee is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and has the secretaries of various ministries or departments with disaster management responsibilities as members.

Cyclone Tauktae:

Tauktae is the fourth cyclone in consecutive years to have developed in the Arabian Sea, that too in the pre-monsoon period (April to June).
Tauktae has been intensifying very rapidly. From a depression formed in the southeast Arabian Sea on May 14 morning, it strengthened into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ by the early hours of May 16.
The IMD has further predicted that Cyclone Tauktae will turn into an extremely severe cyclonic storm.
The coastal districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat are on high alert and people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas.
Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa leaving about ten people dead and about a hundred damaged houses.
The cyclone is expected to hit Gujarat on the 17th and the forecast is that it will reduce in intensity then.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES ,MINT

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