CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN DISASTER MITIGATION & MANAGEMENT …

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCEIN DISASTER MITIGATION &

MANAGEMENT (CoEDMM)

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

CoEDMM Contact :

Prof. Mahua Mukherjee, Ph.D.HEAD

Tel: +91-1332-285401Mobile- +91-9411500150

Email: [email protected] address: https://www.iitr.ac.in/~AR/mahuafap

Postal AddressCentre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM)

Indian Institute of Technology, RoorkeeRoorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India

2020

OFFICE: Mr. Tahir HussainEmail: [email protected] | Tel: +91-1332-286616 |Fax: +91-1332-286617

Mobile: + 91 9149346198Website: https://www.iitr.ac.in/centers/COEDMM/pages/Home.html

mailto:[email protected]

https://www.iitr.ac.in/~AR/mahuafap

Vision:

To emerge as a Premier Centre for Disaster

Mitigation and Risk Management for sustainable

habitat

Mission:

Human resource development for disaster

mitigation and management to protect the

people, environment and economy and ensure a

disaster resilient society through education,

research and development.

Director’s Message

The contemporary world is facing increasingly complex risks. We needtechnological and engineering solutions to address these risks in order to build amore adaptable and resilient present, as well as future. As a premier technicalinstitution of the country, IIT Roorkee has been contributing towards providingsolutions to these challenges. It is our endeavour to keep abreast of thechallenges and opportunities in the field of disaster mitigation and management.The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) inIIT Roorkee serves as a resource for professionals and students from diversedisciplines to address real life problems through innovative research,collaboration and education. The Centre is currently reviewing its journey sinceinception to learn from its experiences and develop it into an important nationalresource. Within a few years of its birth, CoEDMM already has manyachievements and seeks to increasingly contribute towards the national vision“To build a safer and disaster resilient India by a holistic, pro-active, technologydriven and sustainable development strategy that involves all stakeholders andfosters a culture of prevention, preparedness and mitigation”.

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Message From Head

The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) isknowledge development centre on hazard sciences. Its aim is to understand risksof society towards natural and man-made hazards, to impart techno-managerialeducation to the next generation students, facilitate researchers throughadvanced research facilities for innovative knowledge generation, and share thesame through science and technology advises to professional managers indisaster risks, vulnerable communities, analysts and policy makers. Integrated

program of the Centre enhances the quality of learning experience for graduateand professional students who participate in the Centre's research andeducation projects. With the ever increasing pace at which technology isexpanding its reach in today's dynamic world and with the ever growing need forunparalleled demands, the onus is on developing managers with that perfecttouch of technical expertise. The CoEDMM has the distinction of being the onlyinstitute in the country where perfect blend of engineers and scientists meetsmanagement discipline producing the techno-managers required to build andmaintain disaster resilience. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction(SFDRR, 2015) has brought a sweeping change in disaster managementperspective. Paradigm shift towards risk management brings big datamanagement and networking into the focus. The CoEDMM is committed to workfor risk resilience and in bringing changes at local, national and global level asimportant knowledge partner.

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The main aim of the educational program is to impart advancedknowledge on technical and managerial skills to the society, andprofessionals to make them equipped with innovative technologies foreffective mitigation and management of disasters for the overall benefitof the society. The Centre is facilitating cutting edge, cross-sectoralresearch and conducts training on disaster risk, hazard and vulnerabilitymapping, and their mitigation and pre and post disaster management.Since 2015, the Centre is accommodating Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDG) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) concepts with SendaiFramework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) into regular chores oractivities through projects, trainings, expert lectures, conferences,workshops.

Now the CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee is acknowledged as knowledge andscience and technology dissemination platform even beyond the nationalboundary. Some of the notable sponsored and research projects areearthquake early warning systems, vulnerability and risk analysis of geo-hazards in Himalayan regions, rehabilitation and retrofitting of heritagebuildings, seismic strengthening technologies and comparativeassessment of various retrofit techniques for Un-Reinforced Masonry(URM) school buildings in India, documentation of traditional earthquakeresistant building technologies from South Asian Association for RegionalCooperation (SAARC) countries, wind tunnel studies for various real-lifeprojects across India, bioremediation of accumulated pesticides,mitigation techniques of contaminated environments, etc.

The Center has high-end technical expertise in geospatial and remotesensing technology, hazard, vulnerability mapping, risk analysis throughmodeling and scenario generation; diverse field of early-warning system,urban risks to ecosystem-based mitigation/adaptation approaches areexplored. Social sciences and pure science disciplines comprehensivelyaddress geo-physical, hydrological, meteorological, climatological,chemical, and biological disasters. Knowledge creation on natural andman-made hazards like earthquake, landslide, cyclones, floods, chemical,fire, biological etc. helped the growth and development of the Centre.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Centre of Excellence In Disaster Mitigation and Management

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, RoorkeeIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) has the distinction of being the FirstEngineering College of India established in 1847 AD called then as 'The RoorkeeCollege'. It was renamed as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854and in November 1949 was elevated to the First Engineering University ofIndependent India. Since its establishment, the University of Roorkee has playeda vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the countryand in pursuit of research. The University has contributed to all sectors oftechnological development in the country. On the 21st September 2001, theUniversity was declared an institute of national importance changing its statusfrom 'University of Roorkee' to 'Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee'. Themain campus in Roorkee has an area of 365 acres, a campus of 25 acres inSaharanpur and 10 acres campus in Greater Noida.

Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM)

The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) isthe first center of Disaster Mitigation and Management in India. It wasestablished on March 27, 2006 with the aim of conducting the educationalprogram, cutting edge research and training on disasters, vulnerability and theirmitigation. Creation of a National Database for rapid dissemination ofinformation and knowledge is also an objective. This is a multidisciplinaryresearch and education centre.

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OBJECTIVES:• To build and strengthen national capacity to reduce the impacts of

natural, technological and environmental disasters through multi-disciplinary technological and scientific interventions.

• To stimulate research and application, provide knowledge, conveyexperience, build capabilities for reducing or preventing severe andrecurrent impacts of hazards, for most vulnerable communities.

• To increase opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaborations tofoster scientific, technical and managerial contributions to the publicdecision-making process in matters of hazard, risk and disasterprevention.

• To develop comprehensive risk assessments, risk reduction strategiesfor the analysis and expression of the socio-economic impacts ofdisasters and risk mitigation for disaster prevention by establishingnationally and professionally agreed standards or methodologies.

• To build and strengthen national capacity to reduce the impacts ofnatural, and human-made disasters through multidisciplinaryapproach.

• To promote applied and intra-disciplinary research in the areas ofscience, technology, management and social sciences for enhancingdisaster resilience.

• To identify the ‘best-practice’ technologies, indigenous knowledgetowards Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and engage in riskcommunication for building capabilities to reduce or prevent severeand recurrent impacts of hazards on the most vulnerablecommunities.

• To facilitate multi-disciplinary collaborations encompassing scientists,technical experts and managers and to apprise policymakers inmatters of risk and disaster prevention and mitigation.

Centre of Excellence In Disaster Mitigation and Management

The CoEDMM provides and ensures an academic and research environment,which is conducive to preparing disaster managers who can handle challengesassociated with risk management due to multidisciplinary nature of theirspecialization. The programme and specialization are designed in such a fashionthat it yields a skill-set that has optional compatibility with the competency setanticipated by Govt, Public and Private sector industry, NGOs, Consultants andother agencies.

M.Tech programThe Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, launched thevery first Masters' Program (M.Tech.) of two years duration in 2012. Studentscome through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (National EntranceExamination) and sponsored by reputed national agencies. The program pridesitself of encompassing all hazard approach for sustainable development andresilience of the nation.

Ph.D. ProgramResearch programmes leading to the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)facilitated in the Centre. The Centre currently has 21 doctoral students pursuingresearch in fields related to disaster risk reduction creating opportunities forindependent and cutting edge research.

AlumniWith the unique techno-managerial expertise, alumni of the CoEDMM are wellplaced in different fields pertaining to disaster management and risk mitigation.Some of our alumni are working with Government authorities dealing withDisaster like Department of Science and Technology, IMD etc. They are wellsuited for disaster managers' role for various types of Industrial risk assessmentsand managements. Our Alumni are also in Industries outside countries.Educational/ Training Institutes, Non-governmental organizations and Socio-technical entrepreneurship are alternative options for our Alumni. Some of theyare pursuing higher studies in reputed national and International reputedInstitutes like Texas Tech University, Cornell University, Kyoto University andTongji University, China.

Academic Programmes


Research Activities

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Centre of Excellence In Disaster Mitigation and Management

Earthquake

Early Warning

System

GIS based

Decision Support

System for

Landslide

Remote

Sensing and UAVs

for Disaster

Management

ICT in

Disaster

Management

Humanitarian

Supply Chain

Management

Crowd

Management

Aerodynamic

Simulation of Wind

load on High-rise

Structure

Wind Tunnel

Testing

Seismic Resilience

Multi-hazard

Safe Habitat

Hazard,

Vulnerability

and Risk

Assessment

Flood Modelling/

Simulation,

Forecasting

Drought

Prediction and

Monitoring

Industrial and

Fire Risk

Assessment

Bioremediation

of Accumulated

Pesticides

Bioremediation

of Accumulated

Pesticides

Urban Climate

Research

Geotechnical

•Earthquake & Landslide Risk Assessment Laboratory

•Structural, Soil Dynamics Lab (Earthquake Dept)•Seismological Observatory in Earthquake Dept

Hydrology

• Experimental Watershed in the Lesser Himalaya

• Watershed Hydrology Lab in Hydrology Department.

Meteorology

• Climate Change and Wind Engineering Lab

• Wind Simulation Lab

• Wind Lab in Civil Department

• Hydro-meteorological Lab in Hydrology Department

Climatology

• Climate Change and Wind Engineering Lab

• Incident Management Simulation Lab

• Climatology Lab in Arch. & Planning Department

Bio-Chemical & Radio-nuclear

• Bio-chemical Disaster Risk Assessment Laboratory

• Industrial/ Man-Made Risk Assessment Lab

• Nuclear Physics Lab in Physics Department

• Fire Lab in Mechanical Department

Central Facilities

• Institute Instrumentation Centre

Laboratories

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Landslide and geo-

hazards

Das, J. D.

Research Interests:

Seismo-Tectonics, Remote Sensing,

GIS, Seismic Hazards

Email Id: [email protected]

Contact: 01332-285264

Sen, SubirResearch Interests:

Risk Perceptions, Study of Indian

insurance industry, Climate

Change Adaptation, DRR, Applied

Econometrics


Contact: +91-1332284799

Faculty Faculty

Lakra, H. S.Research Interests:

Culture Based Planning, Public Realm

and cultural reproduction and socio-

economic development of ethnic

communities, Vernacular Architecture


Contact: 01332-284775AR

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ING Mukherjee, Mahua

(Head of the Centre)

Research Interests:

Sustainable and Smart Built

Environment, Urban Climate, Resilient

Affordable Housing


Contact: 01332-285334

BIO

TEC

HN

OLO

GY Pathania, Ranjana

Research Interests:

Molecular Biology, Bacterial

Pathogenesis, Role Of Small Rna In

Acinetobacter Baumannii, Antibacterial

Drug Discovery,

Chemical Genomics


Contact: 01332-285324

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ENG

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RIN

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Dhiman, AmitResearch Interests:

Fluid Mechanics, Cfd, Non-

Newtonian Fluids, Bluff Body Flow

And Heat Transfer, Fvm And Fdm Solvers


Contact: 01332-285890

Sinha, ShishirResearch Interests:

Blended Polymer Composites, Polymer

Surface Modification, Nano Composites

Ion Exchanger


Contact: 01332-285648

CIV

ILEN

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ING Garg, P K

Research Interests:

Satellite Image Analysis, (Land use

Mapping, Land Surveying, Digital Image

Processing, GPS / GIS


Contact: 01332-285462

Jain, KamalResearch Interests:

Analytical, Digital, Satellite and Close

Range Photogrammetry; 3D Virtual City

Mapping , GIS, Vehicle Navigation and

Tracking


Contact: 01332-285465

Roy, SudipResearch Interests:

Electronic Design

Automation, Algorithm

Design, ICT, IoTs Based

Application Development

Email Id:

[email protected]

Contact: 01332-284815

EAR

THQ

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ENG

INEE

RIN

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KamalResearch Interests:

Seismology, Seismic Hazard

Assessment, Earthquake Triggering,

Fractals


Contact: 01332-285526

Maheshwari, B. K.Research Interests:

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering,

Soil Dynamics, Finite Element Method,

Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction,

Landslide Hazard


Contact: 01332-285450

Sharma, M. L.Research Interests:

Engineering Seismology, Seismic

Hazard Analysis, Seismotectonics

Digital Telemetered, Seismic Arrays,

SAR Interferometry, Strong Ground

Motion Prediction, Microzonation


Contact: 01332-285536

Singh, YogendraResearch Interests:

Performance Based Seismic Design,

Performance Based Design of Buildings

and Bridges; Seismic Response

Evaluation of Structures, Non-Linear

Modelling and Analysis of RC Structures


Contact: 01332-285534

Arya, D.S.Research Interests:

GIS and Remote Sensing

Applications, Urban Floods,

Climate Change Impact Studies,

Hydrological Data Analysis


Contact: 01332-285370

Goel, N.K.Research Interests:

Stochastic Hydrology, Extreme Value

Estimation; Flood Estimation and

Forecasting, Modelling, Power

Generation and Pipeline Projects;


Contact: 01332-285814


EAR

TH S

CIE

NC

E Goswami, AjantaResearch Interests:Remote Sensing, Geological & Geo-

hazards Study; Cryosphere Study, Earth

Observation & Ground Based Study


Contact: 01332-284835

HY

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OLO

GY

Sen, SumitResearch Interests:

Water Movement Through Various

Watershed Components, Surface

Runoff Generation Mechanisms


Contact: 01332-284754

CO

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CIE

NC

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ENG

INEE

RIN

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Kumar, RaviResearch Interests:

Thermal Engineering, Refrigeration

& Air-Conditioining, Two-Phase Flow &

Heat Transfer, Instrumentation and

Measurements


Contact: 01332-285740

Singh, InderdeepResearch Interests:

Composite Materials; Conceptualization

and Development, Manufacturing of

Polymer and Metal Matrix Composites,

Natural Fiber Based Green Composites


Contact: 01332-285614MEC

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NIC

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S Agarwal, RajatResearch Interests:

Supply Chain Management, CSR,

Crowd Management, Industrial

Safety


Contact: 01332-285737

HU

MA

TAR

IAN

&SO

CIA

L SC

IEN

CE

PH

YSI

CS

Gourishetty, Anil K.Research Interests:

Experimental Nuclear Physics,

Nuclear Astrophysics, Monte Carlo

Simulation of Response of Radiation

Detectors, Environmental radioactivity


Contact: 01332-285133

Head of the CoEDMM

D K Paul 2006-2011

Ajay Gairola 2012-2015

B K Maheswari 2015-2018

Mahua Mukherjee 2018- till date

VISITING FACULTY

R K Bhandari

Distinguished Visiting Professor

Former Director CBRI Roorkee

Dev Niyogi

Adjunct Faculty

Professor Regional Climatology, Indian

State Climatologist, Purdue Univ. USA

Girish Chandra Joshi

Adjunct Faculty

Deputy Prog. Manager, UDRP

Uttarakhand Govt. Dehradun

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Alumni Research Scholars (As Communicated)

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S. No. Name of Expert Affiliations

1 Lt Gen P R Kumar Retired from Indian Army

2 Dr. T.G. Sitharam Professor, IISc Bangalore

3 Prof. Ishikawa, Hirohiko DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan

4 Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta CAP-RES, NIDM, Government of India

5 Dr. Sanjay Agarwal Director (Utility), MES, GoI, New Delhi

6 Brig Vinod Dutta Form. Sec., Defence Crisis Management Group MoD,

7 Mr. Anunabh Mitra Chief Continuity Officer for HCL Technologies, Noida

8 Dr. Thamban Meloth Group Director (Polar Sciences) at NCAOR, Goa

9 Dr. Rajib Shaw Professor, Keio University, Indo-japan lab- Director; Chair, UNDRR Science Technology Advisory Group

10 Pratima Rani Bose Associate Director, DDF Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Delhi

11 T.P. Singh Professor, AIIMS, New Delhi

12 Yuji Nishikawa Japanese Embassy, New Delhi

13 Kodama Daisuke Japanese Embassy, New Delhi

14 Hihoshi Yoshino University of Tokyo

15 Shigeki Ashida Ritsumeikan India Office, New Delhi

16 Lt. Gen. P.R. Kumar Retired Army Officer

17 Dr. R.K. Bhandari Kaushambi, Ghaziabad

18 Dr. Subhajyoti Samaddar DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan

19 Dr. Rebecca Muenich Arizona State University, USA

List of Experts’ who visited the Centre Recently

Dr. K. MohanDirector, GITAM School of Architecture, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam

Dr. Ashish Harbindu

Dr. Putul HaldarAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Civil EngineeringIIT Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab

Dr. Ravi K. [email protected]

Dr. Madan Mohan RoutScientistInstitute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Dr. Anurag AeronAssistant Professor ICFAI University Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Dr. Sujay Negi Dr. Repaul KanjiResearch Scientist & Program Manager, Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Dr. Prashant SrivastavaNational Innovation Foundation, Department of Science and Technology, GoI, New Delhi

Dr. Himani MaheshwariAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science; Uttaranchal University, Dehradun

Dr. Manoj KuriAssistant Professor & HeadDepartment of Electronics & Communication EngineeringCollege Bikaner, Rajasthan

Dr. Ashutosh SharmaAsstt. Professor; Deptt. of Mechanical Engineering; GL Bajaj Group of Institutions Mathura

Dr. Hemant MittalAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Andhra

Dr. Ganesh KumarScientist, SASE (DRDO)Himparisar, Sector-37aChandigarh-160036

Dr. Pankaj KumarProject FellowCoEDMM, IIT Roorkee


Alumni M.Tech

15

Research Scholar

17

Satyanshu Kumar (2014)Assistant Professor, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J & K

Robin Agarwal (2014)Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Priyanka Saini (2015)Research Scholar @ Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee

Vipin Chanalia (2015)Dayanand Brijendra Swaroop (PG) College, Dehradun

Harisankar K (2015)Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Abhishek Kumar (2015)UNDP

Siddharth Shankar Gupta (2015)Government of India

Ankita Prasun (2016)Building Construction Department, Govt. of Bihar

Pratyasha Patnaik (2016)Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, California

Prashansa Dixit (2016)SAARC Disaster Management Centre (IU), Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Anshuman Shukla (2016)TESRA, Dehradun

Bhola Saha(2017)Assistant Professor, Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam

Mehul Padharia (2017)National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi

Rishi Garhwal(2017)Taru Leading Edge, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Janmejay Sahoo (2017)The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi

Preet Pal Singh (2018)Government of India

Atul Mandol (2018)Research Scholar @ APD, IIT Roorkee

Tanu Gupta (2019)Research Scholar @ CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee

Mohana Manna (2019)NIDM, New Delhi

Centre of Excellence In Disaster Mitigation and Management

Bhanu Pratap ChamoliEarthquake Early warning System

SangeetaEarthquake Induced Landslide Hazard Assessment in Uttarakhand

Praveen Kumar SinghModelling Black Carbon and its Radiative Forcing on N. Himalaya

Abhilasha DixitCryosphere Studies of Indian Himalayas

Akshay PandeyWeb Based Vegetation Health System

Madapala JeevanUrban flooding and LID- Hypothetical Damage Scenarios

Ravi Kiran NandyalaSoil- Foundation-Structure interaction

Akansha PatelCryosphere Studies of W. Himalayas

Sashikanta SahooGround Water Quality Study

Annie SinglaUse of Information and Communication technologies in DM

A. MugeshInfluence of Structural Response on the characteristics of SGM Record

Deepak RawatLandslide Early Warning System in India

Shubham AwasthiMicrowave Remote Sensing for various applications

Vickyson NaoremUrban Resilience to Floods

Deepti Kumari DwivediRemote Sensing for Hazard Management

Preet Pal SinghTechnological Disaster

Aishwarya NarangMathematical model to predict the fire risk incidental duration

Shalu MathuriaFlood Resilient Building Design

Hina GuptaMasonry and Concrete Structure

Jaydeo K DharpureAnalyzing status & future changes of Cryosphere And its relation with CC

Tanu GuptaArtificial intelligence based Disaster Management

Shivani ChouhanEcosystem based Risk Resilience Planning for Sustainable Hill Habitat

Suman GurjarAssessment & Management ofHydrological extremes

Zebaze Djuka Mba Kevin


Roles

Training/ Seminar / Conference / Workshop/ Achievements


M. Tech.

2nd Year (2019- 2021)

Akash Kumar Patel

M.Tech 2nd Year

Ankur

M.Tech 2nd Year

Devendra Paliwal

M.Tech 2nd Year

Manish Krishna

M.Tech 2nd Year

Satyajeet Shukla

M.Tech 2nd Year

Siddharth Kumar

M.Tech 2nd Year

Sooraj Sharma

M.Tech 2nd Year

Swatantra Patel

M.Tech 2nd Year

Vitesh Chauhan

M.Tech 2nd Year

1st Year (2020- 2022)

ABHISHEK M NARASAGOND

M.Tech 1st Year

AVINASH KUMAR PASWAN

M.Tech 1st Year

AYUSH RAWAT

M.Tech 1st Year

BABAR ASHRAF BHAT

M.Tech 1st Year

KUMAR SOURABH

M.Tech 1st Year

MAHILESH SARKAR

M.Tech 1st Year

RAKESH KUMAR MISHRA

M.Tech 1st Year

SATISH

M.Tech 1st Year

SHANTANU

M.Tech 1st Year

SHUBHAM KUMAR

M.Tech 1st Year

SUMAIYAH BEGUM

M.Tech 1st Year

TAPAS KUMAR ROY

M.Tech 1st Year

The Centre creates an enabling platform where experts, faculty from the associatedDepartments, research scholars and future disaster professional interact and exchangeknowledge and enrich leanings aimed at reducing disaster risks. The Centre activelyengages in dissemination and hosted international and national distinguished disastersubject experts, alumni, and professionals from the private and public enterprisesthrough structured events. Finally, the Centre aims to inform policy and help decisionmaking at the formulation and implementation levels. To bring the researchersworking in the field of Disaster Mitigation and Management on common platform withother risk management stakeholders for exchange of views, seminars/symposium /conference/ workshop are being organized by the Centre.• The Centre organizes ‘D’Conscientia’ an annual national Industry-Academia Meet.• The Centre is now striving towards addressing some of the goals shared by the Prime Minister in the

ten-point agenda in his speech at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction(AMCDRR), New Delhi, in 2016.

• The Centre organized 8thAsia Pacific Hydrology and Water Resources Conference (APHW2019)conference during 21-23 November, 2019 on “Emerging Technologies in Urban Water Management”.

• The Centre organized training programme with collaboration with UNSIPDER and NIDM.• The Centre has awarded for Best Poster Presentation award at 4th Himalayan Researchers Consortium by

National Mission for Himalayan Studies (NMHS)

The CoEDMM organized the UN-SPIDER International Training Course on “Space-based Information

System for Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR)” 25 –29 Nov 2019 in IIT Roorkee


Sl.

No.

Project Title Sponsoring

Agency

Amount

(In lacs)

Completed

1 Development of Earthquake Early Warning System in

Northern India

MoES, Govt. of

India, New Delhi

242.00

2 Study on Seismic Strengthening Technologies and

Comparative Assessment of Various Retrofit Techniques

for Unreinforced Masonry School Buildings in India

Nanyang

Technological

University,

Singapore

39.10

3 Documentation on Traditional Earthquake Resistant

Building Technology Available with SAARC Countries

SAARC Disaster

Management

Centre,Delhi

5.50

4 Hazard Characterization and Isolation of Pesticide

degrading Bacteria for Mitigating the Contaminated

Environment

UCOST,

Dehradun

5.91

5 Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Building in India NDMA 20.16

6 Development of Bacterial Pesticide Degrading System for

Bioremediation of Pesticides Accumulated in the Local

Environment

UCOST

Dehradun

2.50

Ongoing

7 Establishment of Earthquake Early Warning System USDMA,

Dehradun

306.10

8 Vulnerability and Risk Analysis of Geohazards in

Himalayan Region

ISRO,

Ahmedabad

20.00

9 Glacier Mass Balance Estimation : A Ground Based and

Satellite Based Approach on a Basin Scale

MoES, NCAOR 32.71

10 Chemical Genetic Approaches for Discovery of Novel

Antibacterials against antibiotic resistant Gram-negative

bacterial pathogens

SERB, New Delhi 64.37

11 Ecosystem based Resilience Planning Sustainable Habitat NMHS, Almorah 18.96

12 Seismic Safety of Hill Buildings by using Low Cost Energy

Dissipating Device

NMHS, Almorah 18.96

13 Conceptualization, Design and Development of Forest-

Waste based Sustainable Composite Materials

NMHS, Almorah 15.36

14 Unraveling the Hydrology of Himalayan Catchment

through High Resolution Hydrological Data

NMHS, Almorah 15.36

15 Impact of Future Climate Change on Himalayan Snow and

Glacier Melt Runoff

NMHS, Almorah 15.36

16 Assessment of Climate Change induced Variations in

Bacteria Diversity and Antibiotic Resistome around Song

River, Uttarakhand

UCOST

Dehradun

8.05

17 Wazirabad Blue-Green Infrastructure – An innovative

environmental Network for Urban Risk Reduction in

Gurugram, NCR

DST, Govt. of India

69.75

List of completed and ongoing Research Projects


Recent Activities of The CoEDMM

8thAsia Pacific Hydrology and Water Resources Conference (APHW2019) conference

during 21-23 November, 2019 on “Emerging Technologies in Urban Water Management”.

National Level Training Programme on Climate Change, Hill Area Development and

Landslides Management sponsored by NIDM on 05-07 December 2019; IIT Roorkee.


15. Peer Review of the Report on Vibration Control (Dr. B.K.

Maheshwari)

ISRO, Bangalore 3.45

16. Repair and Retrofitting of Foundation at LBSNAA Mussoorie

(Dr. B.K. Maheshwari)

Ex.En. CPWD,

Mussorrie

0.70

17. To Check Feasibility for Installation of Lift At LBSNAA,

Mussorrie (Dr. B.K. Maheshwari)

Ex.En. CPWD,

Mussorrie

0.70

Ongoing

18. Building Regulation for Resilience in Uttarakhand (Dr.

Mahua Mukherjee)

TERI, New Delhi 7.10

19. Suggesting Remedial Meaures for SSB Campus at

Gwaldham (Dr. Ajanta Goswami)

Ex.En. Garhwal

Central Division,

CPWD, SSB Campus,

Srinagar Garhwal

0.78

20. GIS Based Large Scale Map Preparation For Doiwala

Town

Mr. Chandresh Kumar

Program Director,

Uttartakhand

1.12

List of Consultancy Projects with Status


Sl. No Project Title Sponsoring

Agency

Amount

(In lacs)

Completed

1. Rehabilitation & Retrofitting of Pre-Independence

Building of FRI, Dehradun (Dr. D.K. Paul)

Ex. En., CED-II, CCU,

Paryavaran

Bhawan, New Delhi

16.84

2. Broad Course Contents Relating to the Capacity Building

Activities for National Earthquake Risk Mitigation Project-

Reg. (Dr. D.K. Paul)

NDMA, New Delhi 5.00

3. Archery and Aquatic Stadium for Commonwealth Game-

2010 (Dr. D.K. Paul)

M/s Construction

Catalysers P. Ltd.,

Pune

3.31

4. Proof Checking of Design of the India Pavilion at Shanghai

Expo – 2010 (Dr. D.K. Paul)

Shri D.R. Naidu,

Design, Udyog

Vihar, Gurgaon

1.68

5. Determination of Aerodynamic Force Coefficients for the

deck of 300 m span CableStayedBridge over River Ravi at

Basohli (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

CES Pvt. Ltd., New

Delhi

4.4

6. Wind Tunnel Studies of 220 m high Twin Flue RC Brick-

Lined Chimney for 4x250 MW Super Thermal Power Plant

at Raigarh (Chattisgarh)(Dr. Ajay Gairola)

Gammon India Ltd.

Mumbai

4.8

7. Wind Tunnel Studies of 275m high Chimney for 1x500

Khaparkheda TPS Expansion Project (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

GEA Energy Ltd. 5.61

8. Wind Tunnel Studies of 180m Tall NDCT for 1x500MW

Khaparkheda TPS Expansion Project (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

GEA Energy Ltd. 5.61

9. Wind Tunnel Testing for the 40 storey building at

Uniworld City, Kolkata (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

Unitech Ltd. 6.7

10. Wind Tunnel Investigations of Doon CyberTowers at

Dehradun (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

SIDCUL, Dehradun 6.7

11. Wind Tunnel Studies of 220 m high RC Brick-Lined

Chimney at Chabra, Rajasthan (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

Gammon India Ltd.

Mumbai

5.05

12. Wind Tunnel Test of Natural Draught Cooling Tower for

Unit-8 Raichur TPS (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

NBCC New Delhi 5.61

13. Wind Tunnel Studies on 160m Tall Residential Building

Proposed at Uniworld Noida (Dr. Ajay Gairola)

Unitech Ltd.,

Gurgaon

6.7

14. Training and Capacity Building Programme on Seismic

Strengthening (NTU Singapore) (Dr. Y. Singh)

NTU Singapore 23.13

List of Consultancy Projects with Status

Some Initial Significant Flagship Projects for the CoEDMM

Name of the Client

Title of the Project Sponsoring authority of the

project

Date of award/ completion (In case

of completed projects/status of ongoing projects)

Remarks

UCOST Dehradun

3rd UttarakhandState Science &TechnologyCongress

UCOST Dehradun

Nov. 10-11, 2008

National Conference

SDMC New Delhi

Earthquake Risk Mitigation

SDMC New DelhiMarch 30 – April 4,

2009SAARC Training Program

NUT SingaporeSeismic Strengthening

NTU Singapore May 17-21, 2009

SDMC New Delhi


SDMC New DelhiMarch 30-April 4,

2009SAARC Training Program

SDMC New Delhi


SDMC New DelhiSept. 15-21, 2010

SAARC Training Program

SDMCEarthquake Risk Mitigation

SDMC New Delhi June 6-17, 2011 SAARC Training Program

NUT TaiwanIndo-Taiwan workshop

NTU Taiwan 15-18 January 2013 Workshop

The CoEDMM envisages its role in national and internationalplatform through significant contribution. The Centre, in future,will be involved with greater intensity in capacity building,vulnerability and risk assessment, planning for risk resilience andreduce disaster risk in order to protect communities, theirlivelihoods, health, cultural heritage, socioeconomic assets andecosystems by strengthening their resilience. Centre shall play vitalrole in furthering the national agenda set through variousinstruments like DM Act 2005, DM Policy, DM Plan, NPDRR andPrime Minister's 10 point agenda on disaster risk Reduction TheCentre aims to be part of the National Mission in achieving fourpriority areas of Sendai framework for DRR 2015-2030 i.e.understanding disaster risk, strengthening disaster risk governance,investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience and enhancingdisaster preparedness for effective response and to 'Build BackBetter' in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction by providingtechnical, scientific and managerial human resource and expertisein collaboration with National and International agencies. TheCoEDMM plans for sharing disaster management and risk resilienceknowledge through different missions of National and Stategovernments e.g. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Smart City, AtalMission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, GramPanchayat Development Plan, National Mission for HimalayanStudies etc.

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