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Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA and Lieutenant Colonel Seeta Ashok Shelke, who led catastrophe alleviation operations during the 2024 Wayanad landslide person been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar.
The Central authorities instituted th grant to recognise and honour invaluable publication and selfless work rendered by individuals and organisations successful the field of catastrophe management.
Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA), successful the Institutional Category, and Lieutenant Colonel Seeta Ashok Shelke, successful the idiosyncratic Category, person been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2026 for their fantabulous enactment successful Disaster Management.
Individual category: Lieutenant Colonel Seeta Ashok Shelke
During the 2024 Wayanad floods and landslips, Lieutenant Colonel Seeta Ashok Shelke ,led Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations. She coordinated with authorities and section leaders to guarantee accelerated evacuation, alleviation distribution, and restoration of indispensable services.
Lieutenant Col. Shelke directed aggregate high-risk rescue missions nether adverse upwind conditions, redeeming hundreds of civilians. She supervised the swift operation of a 190-foot Bailey Bridge astatine Chooralmala, restoring captious connectivity to distant villages, and implemented innovative engineering solutions specified arsenic utilizing a Komatsu PC210 excavator arsenic a counterweight and gathering an improvised footbridge wrong 4 hours astatine night.
By mobilizing 150 tonnes of equipment, Lieutenant Colonel Shelke led the operations that benefited thousands done timely alleviation and betterment efforts. She besides trained implicit 2,300 unit successful catastrophe effect and humanitarian operations. She brings catastrophe hazard simplification (DRR) into enactment done her engineering service.
Using Corps of Engineers skills, she enabled speedy operation of bridges, entree routes, and shelters successful distant disaster-hit areas, supporting alleviation and recovery. Her enactment reflects applicable enactment and the increasing relation of women successful operational DRR.
Institutional category: Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA)
Established successful 2005, the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA) has importantly strengthened catastrophe preparedness and effect successful Sikkim by deploying 1,185 trained Aapda Mitras arsenic Disaster Management officials successful 3 tiers — Disaster Management Assistants astatine colony level, Disaster Management Supervisors astatine artifact headquarters, and Disaster Management Coordinators astatine territory headquarters. It has led to participatory planning, capacity-building initiatives, and Panchayat-level committees which person enhanced resilience to disasters and clime risks crossed each six districts.
During captious events specified arsenic the 2016 Mantam landslide and the 2023 Teesta floods, SSDMA’s real-time coordination and trained archetypal responders enabled the rescue of 2,563 people. SSDMA has institutionalized a proactive, community-centred catastrophe hazard simplification attack done Aapda Mitra, with a beardown absorption connected aboriginal warning, preparedness, and section capableness building. Creating a sustainable, scalable, and replicable exemplary of community-centered catastrophe resilience, peculiarly applicable for different Himalayan and northeastern States.
