Institutional Governance and related concerns –
Heat Mitigation Plan, Karimnagar, Telangana, India
Bandela Meshak
2190300092

Governing Institutions

State Govt./SDMA/ Dist. Admin./DDMAs/ULBs/PRIs
- Appointment of Nodal officer at each level(state, districts, tehsil and block, Department etc)
Implementation of Heat Action Plan
Issue necessary directions forpreparedness
State Govt./Dept. of home - Ensure shade for on duty traffic police, ashey are more exposed to heat wave and distribution of Cool jacket for traffic police
personnel
State Govt./SDMA/ Dist.
Admin./DDMAs/ULBs/PRIs/Linedepartments
Heat wave should be included in annualdisaster event calendar.
Interstate collaboration for sharingexperiences and data
Reviewing preparedness &mitigationMeasures
SHORT TERM MITIGATION MEASURES
State Govt./Health Department
Prepare hospital preparedness plans
Preparedness of the heat health andsocial care system
Ensuring 24X7 heat health facilities withadequate provision of basic medicine likeORS. Glucose etc.
Dissemination of heat health plan byorganizing awareness campaigns.
Dept. of forest in coordination with other
departments
Identify heat hot-spots" using frameworkfor tracking and modelling based on IMD data.
Maintain water bodies in the forest areafor wild animals & birds.
Afforestation and plantation
Prevention of forest fire
Dep. of Rural development and PanchayatiRaj
Implementation of instruction for mainstreaming heat health precautionary measures, including re-scheduling of working
hours and reduce piece rate, in allSchemes and programmes.
Ensure shed for resting and drinking water facilities for workers at all work place,
Department of Drinking water
Ensure drinking water facilities.
Identify vulnerable place and ensuredrinking water facilities.
Repair/maintenance of mechanical electrical fault of tube wells, ponds at priority basis to ensure water storage.
Suitable arrangement for drinking watersupply and promptly respond to water scarcity.
Ensure drinking water facilities all common place and nearby habitation.
Education Department
- Rescheduling of school timing and vacation as per heatwave situation. Ensuring cool places for all educational
institutions , and availability of waterfacilities.
Ensure that students avoid outdoor physical activities during the summer inschools.
Research on heatwave related issuesthrough universities.
Governing Institutions

Dept. of Labour/Dept. of Social Welfare
Consider guidelines for heatwave seasonwhile preparing activity plans.
Re-scheduling of working hours foremployees in different sectors.
Ensure drinking water facilities at workplaces.
Coordinate with Health department and ensure regular health check-up of the workers and
provide emergency materials to constriction workers.
State Govt./Dept. of Agriculture/Horticultureand Animal Husbandry
Follow the advisory on heatwave Shelter for livestock and animal husbandryshould be maintained
Pre-positioning of adequate veterinarymedicines and supplies.
Update contingency plan regarding provision of drinking water for animal.
State Government/ District Admin./DDMAs/ULBs/MAUD
Open parks/open areas during daytime forproviding spaces with shade.
Sprinkling of water on roads.
Construct shelters, sheds at public place,provide access to public parks during heatwave season.
Promote cool roofs initiative such as paintroof white, create green roofs and walls and plan trees
in neighbourhood to keep
them cool.
State Government/ Dept. of Transport
- To ensure
- 1) Shelter/ sheds at bus stops,
- 2) Frequency of transportation,
- 3) drinkingwater facilities at bus stop.
- Enable better emergency transport system for affected people to health care
facilities with adequate equipment.
Department of Power Ensure repair & maintenance work for uninterrupted power supply before andduring the summer.
- Re-scheduling load shedding
All General Manager of Zone and Divisional Railways Manager/ Metro
Rail Corporationsin states.
Repair/ maintenance of mechanical/electrical system on prioritybasis including fan and
cooling system.
Ensure drinking water facilities in trainsand railway stations.
State Govt./ Dept. of Science andTechnology
To develop application/ APP related to awareness generation, quick information sharing on the
Heatwave Risk Reduction.
R&D activities to promote utilization of S&T in the field of Heatwave risk reduction
Promote research on heatwave relatedissues.
Governing Institutions

State Govt./ SDMA/ Concerned
lineDepartments
Long term planning for heat resilienceinfrastructure
Promote cool roofs technology and useother similar heat reduction technology.
Ensure implementation of mixed use planning adopted in heatwave affectedcities.
Heat appropriate planning for new building (consideration e.g.: in architecture,width/height
ratio, street development, orientation and site) in urban and rural areas.
-Ensure capacity building of structural engineers, civil engineers and architects forconstruction
for green building, maintenance and fire safety of structure.
Ensure construction of green building, environment and building code related toheatwave
risk mitigation.
Implement cool roof policy for the state of Telangana.
(Draft cool roof policy is annexed)
Sate Govt./ MAUD/ULBs/PRIs - Ensure implementation of latest National
Building Code of India 2016 Part- IV “Fire &Lafe Safety” in their building bye-laws
State Govt./Relief
Commissioner/SDMA/Dept. of
Forest /Dept. of R&B
Ensure construction of green building . Energy conservation building code (ECBC)related
to heatwave risk mitigation.
Increase forest coverage and green area.
Afforestation and mass plantation
Coordination with Transport Departmentand Roads and Bridges for plantation of trees at
road side , barren land and other areas.
-Prevention of forest fire and control
measures.
State Govt./Dept. of Agriculture Promote short duration and heat resisting,stress tolerant variety crops.
Governing Institutions

State Govt./PWD, MAUD
Capacity building of structural engineers, civil engineers and architects for
construction of green building, maintenanceand fire safety of the structures.
Long term mitigation measures construction of green building, environmentand
building code related to heatwave risk
mitigation.
Agriculture and fisheries department/Animal Husbandry/ PanchayatiRaj and Rural
Development/ Police/Women and Child Development/Municipal Administration and
Urban Development/ Labour employment
training and factories
Enhance capacity of farmers on mitigationand preparedness measures.
Ensure awareness creation activitieswhile working outside.
Implement awareness programmes forthe officials and field staff
SDMA/ District Admin./ DDMA/Informationand Public relations Dept. and other
concerned departments
IEC campaign to create awareness through print media, electronic
media,social media etc.
Display board with colour coding forheatwave alert.
Display DO’s and Don’ts in the Publicareas, Hospitals, Parks etc.
Develop of mobile application for faster
spread of heat related issue, alertness,space for shelters and drinking water.
DATA COLLECTION AND DOCUMENTATION
SDMA/DDMA/Health Department thoughNodal officer/All state line departments
Establish a data monitoring cell and collect data from district and maintain
statelevel data base.
A standardized collection of granular data
Standard protocol for death investigation.
Adopt uniform process for registration of causalities/ deaths due to
heatwave based
on the post mortem report, death count,type of disease, time and duration.

INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (IMD)
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MA & UD DEPARTMENT / CORPORATIONS / MUNICIPALITIES
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INFORMATION & PUBLIC RELATIONS (I & PR) DEPARTMENT
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108/104 EMERGENCY SERVICE
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LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT
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PANCHAYATI RAJ AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
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TSRTC
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EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS
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ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
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ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) DEPARTMENT
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POLICE DEPARTMENT
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