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Home Concept States Partners Resources Alerts User Zone DRR Talk- User Image Gallery Guest Book Maps Contact Us   State Contingency Plan                     Karnataka Karnataka is the eighth largest Indian state by area, the ninth largest by population and comprises 29 districts. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest. The state covers an area of 191,791 km² (74,051 sq mi) or 5.83% of the total geographical area of India. Karnataka is situated on a tableland where the Western and Eastern Ghat ranges converge into the Nilgiri hill complex. The State of Karnataka is confined roughly within 11.5 degree North and 18.5 degree North latitudes and 74 degree East and 78.5 degree East longitude. The state has three principal geographical zones: the coastal region of Karavali, the hilly Malnad region comprising the Western Ghats and the Bayaluseeme region comprising the plains of the Deccan plateau. The bulk of the state is in the Bayaluseeme region, the northern part of which is the second largest arid region in India. The highest point in Karnataka is the Mullayanagiri hills in Chikkamagaluru district which has an altitude of 1,929 metres (6,329 ft). Some of the important rivers in Karnataka are the Kaveri, the Tungabhadra, the Krishna and the Sharavathi. Karnataka experiences four seasons. The winter in January and February is followed by summer between March and May, the monsoon season between June and September and the post-monsoon season from October till December. Meteorologically, Karnataka is divided into three zones — coastal, north interior and south interior. Of these, the coastal zone receives the heaviest rainfall with an average rainfall of about 3,638.5 mm (143 in) per annum, far in excess of the state average of 1,139 mm (45 in). Agumbe in the Shivamogga district receives the second highest annual rainfall in India. The highest recorded temperature was 45.6 °C (114 °F) at Raichur and the lowest recorded temperature was 2.8 °C (37 °F) at Bidar. The state of Karnataka is frequently affected by heavy rains and floods while disasters in the coal and gold mines are also contributing factors to human causalities. Severe drought during 1999 to 2003, followed by heavy rains and floods during 2005 and 2006, and air Blast in Kolar gold mine in 2005 are the major hazards in the state of Karnataka. The impact of Latur earth quake (1992) reached to the two districts in Karnataka. The effect of east coast cyclone also reaches in few parts of Karnataka. Occasional communal riots in Mangalore district are reported in recent years. Emergency Contingency Palnning - Karnataka 2007 - Summary Results Staff Experienced in Emergencies Gender Composition Staff composition Total Staff – 264 MASS has almost 100% women staff. MASS data is not added in above chart. sds Interactive Karnataka Map Courtesy : Google Note: The contingency planning workshop was conducted with five partner organizations in Karnataka. BIRDS, NST, Gram Vikas, MASS, Prawarda 16% of the staff is experienced in emergency situation. They have mostly worked in responding floods and drought situation. The experience of working in drought is mostly about providing fodder, feeds support for livestock and providing employment opportunities for people. The flood response experience is recent, during 2005 and 2006 floods. The staff members have mostly worked for the follow up with government for appropriate relief material, collaborating with government for organizing health camps. None of the staff and the organizations have yet exposed to the Sphere standards. The data also indicates that only one staff member has been trained in disaster situation. Volunteers As most of the organizations are new to the disaster response they do not have any system of mobilising volunteers during emergency response. However all the organizations have capcities to mobilize volunteers from various sources like community, concern citizens and educational institutions. Assets with the partners: Every partner organisation has office with all the communication facilities like telephone, internet, fax. Two organizations have the good facility of training center. Most of the organizations are new to the disaster response work and have never been involved in distribution of relief material at large scale, so they have not located the warehouse facility. This is an important strength that the partners have communication facility as well as training centers. Existing logistic systems for emergency response • Every organisation has created well organized logistical and financial management systems for the regular development programmes. Most of them have not worked directly in disaster response so they do not have any special procedure for emergency. None of the logistics staff is trained in logistics in emergency. • Community Preparedness: Recent history of past few years indicates severe drought and floods are the major disasters affecting poor population. Most of the partner organizations have started their response work from recent floods.   Scenario - Scale Please note: The ranking of the disasters based on the perceptions of the participants in the workshops with CP partners on the scale of 1 (least) to 5 (high) on likelihood. No Disaster Ranking Impact 1 Floods 4 In 2005 almost 1293 villages from 66 talukas of 11 districts (Bijapur, Bagalkot, Kodagu, Hassan, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Chikamagalur, Raichur, Mysore, Mandya and Chamarajanagara) were affected due to floods. 127 people lost their life and almost 4.10 lakh people were evacuated. The report also mentions the number of 86356 house damage and crops over 1.66 lakh ha were lost. Almost 1.6 lakh people were staying in 150 relief camps. It is observed that new dams coming up in Krishna valley are creating flooding hazards for the villages located on the river bank during heavy rains in Maharashtra and Karnataka. 2 Drought 4 Karnataka, has the second largest arid zone in the country after Rajasthan, has been reeling under a third consecutive drought. In 2001-2002, when the drought began, more than 250 suicide deaths have been reported, compared to about 50 in the previous four years, as per government figures show. In 2003, deaths have been reported from places which are not included in the traditional `suicide belt’ on the dry Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border. The three-year drought, brought on primarily by the continuous failure of the south-west monsoon, has had a major impact on both surface and groundwater systems in the Cauvery basin. Inflow into the Cauvery water reservoirs has reduced drastically. This has affected agriculture throughout the Cauvery basin, both in Karnataka. According to figures released by the Karnataka government, the normal area sown in the areas of the Cauvery river system is 450,000 hectares. In 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 the sown area was only 239,000 and 238,000 hectares respectively. This dropped to 210,000 hectares in 2003-2004, which is only 46 percent of the normal area 3 Communnal Riots 3 Communal clash in 2006 in Maglore district affected manglore town as well as taluka places of Bantwal, Beltangdi and Puthur. In this riots– 2 people killed , Stabbing and use of weapons - 16 persons injured seriously Hospitalization – 60 cases including the above 16 persons, Cases filed – 350 cases Curfew for 4 days - affected livelihood of poor Shortage of milk and other necessities. Vehicles and shops burnt. 20 houses damage 4 Air Blast 3 Kolar Gold mine got air blast in 2005 human loss: -nil- houses fully collapsed: 50 houses partially damaged: 100 loss of livestock: sheep, goat, hens crop loss:  -nil- livelihood effected: - nil- infrastructure: roads and water pipe lines migration: very high due to frequent blasts

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