Mock Drill in Pune: Authorities Say ‘No Need to Panic’

As an allotment of civic apish assignment to appraise emergency preparedness, the Pune commune administering has articular three locations breadth agnate exercise will be conducted on Wednesday. The action aims to analysis the acknowledgment of civilian and defence agencies in the accident of war-like scenarios or all-embracing disasters.

Giving capacity at a columnist conference on Tuesday, Jitendra Dudi, Pune Commune Collector, said, “Residents are brash not to panic. The siren is advised alone for participants in the exercise. The apish assignment will be captivated at the Board Hall (Vidhan Bhavan) in Camp, Mulshi Panchayat Samiti appointment in Paud, and the borough board bounds in Talegaon Dabhade. The exercise in allocation with the defence department, police, blaze services, borough bodies, and added key agencies will activate at 4pm.”

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The commune currently has sirens at 85 sites, abounding of which are acclimated to active automated workers about about-face timings. Notable locations in the burghal accommodate Aga Khan Palace, Indian Cables, SNDT College, NCL in Pashan, Parvati Water Filtration Plant, PMPML branch at Swargate, Pune railway station, and the Pune Cantonment office.

Dudi antiseptic that there will be no blackout in Pune during the drill. “While cities like Mumbai may simulate blackouts, Pune will not. People should abstain overextension or assertive rumors and chase alone official communication,” he said. A axial ‘War Room’ will adviser and alike the absolute operation.

Each accommodating administration — including the Army, Air Force, National Disaster Acknowledgment Force (NDRF), blaze department, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad borough corporations, and the accompaniment bloom administration — will arrange 10 to 15 personnel. “Around 100 to 150 academy acceptance will additionally participate as apish civilians and will be accomplished to act as approaching adept trainers for agnate exercises,” Dudi said.

Scenarios such as blaze outbreaks and bomb blasts will be apish to appraise the ability of aborticide protocols and emergency medical acknowledgment systems. Dudi accent that the assignment is a antitoxin admeasurement to advance allocation and ensure that advice alcove citizens apace in crisis situations.

Although sirens are installed at 76 locations beyond Pune, alone one will be activated during the assignment in the burghal breadth while the added two are in rural parts.

“This is the aboriginal such all-embracing apish assignment actuality conducted accompanying in 244 districts beyond India, in accordance with axial government directives,” he added. The assignment additionally aims to accession accessible acquaintance about emergency procedures, decidedly what accomplishments to booty back a siren is heard.

Priya Kendre, a postgraduate apprentice volunteering in the drill, said, “It’s not every day that we get to booty allotment in article that helps adapt the absolute commune for emergencies. With the acceleration in burghal disasters and all-around tensions, acquirements how to act bound can save lives. I’m appreciative to be allotment of this and attending advanced to acceptable a adept trainer.”

Anil Jagtap, a shopkeeper in Talegaon Dabhade, said the advertisement initially acquired concern. “Hearing about sirens and drills makes you anxious, abnormally with so abounding rumors online. But afterwards the Collector’s briefing, I feel added reassured. It’s acceptable that authorities are cerebration advanced and involving approved citizens,” he said.

In Maharashtra, apish drills will be captivated in 16 cities, including Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. These are disconnected into three categories based on sensitivity. The aboriginal includes high-risk zones like Mumbai, Uran (home to the JNPT port), and Tarapur, which houses a nuclear facility.