Tsunami Disaster in Kollam District 2004

After completing the relief works the biggest task before the District administration, Kollam was rehabilitation of over 2969 families who have lost their houses and other equipments. The first phase of the rehabilitation work has started with the construction of temporary shelters for the affected people. The following ICT supports were being given by the NIC to the district administration for tsunami rehabilitation work.

COMPUTERISATION OF TSUNAMI SURVEY DATA

1. All the field survey details have been stored in the database server with user friendly input forms. These forms were designed with Visual Basic 6 and Access as database
2. Ration Card Information database and Election Identity card Information have been used for verifying the above data.
3. Different kinds of reports required by the District administration were generated using Crystal Reporter 9.
4. Complaints received from public about the information collected by the survey have been registered in the system and forwarded to the District Collector and member of panchayat for necessary correction and approval.
5. Final list of fully damaged houses were handed over to various NGO’s involved in the rehabilitation work.

Computerised TSUNAMI information counter has been setup at Karunagappally taluk office for providing citizen centric service. Public and News paper were appreciated of the service of NIC.

TSUNAMI CARD FOR AFFECTED VICTIMS

On the direction of the District Collector, NIC district unit assisted in the designing and printing of the TSUNAMI IDENTIFICATION CARD for the victims. This card contains all the information of the victims such as Ward No, House No, Survey No, Age, Sex, Name & Address, Family details, Relief amount, Damage details, Payment details and details of assistance received from various NGO’s etc. This card can also be utilized by other department like Fisheries, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry etc. (Paper cutting was sent to KSU)

All the cash transaction related to tsunami rehabilitation work or fully and partially damaged houses and buildings are being fed into the system and daily reports are being taken for verification. It has helped to improve the efficiency of the cash payment system.

Tsunami Daily/Weekly Reports (26 sheets) have been prepared and send to Disaster Secretary, Govt. of Kerala.

TSUNAMI WEB SITE has been hosted with all the latest information and all government approved lists (http://www.kollam.nic.in/relief.html). We are planning to craft this site as a historic site in memory of TSUNAMI disaster at Kollam.

Judgment issued by the District Court on the petitions received by the Adalath conducted in three phases were kept in database and various reports were being generated for decision making and submitting proposal to the government. A Database is being kept ready for action to be taken on the basis of future decision of the government.

New software has been developed and implemented for the data entry and report generation of MATSYSFED tsunami survey list. The following area-wise /ward-wise reports/lists have been generated.
• Objection filed against the sanctioned list
• Adalat conducted by Legal services authority
• Application received in connection with new request for fishing equipments.