MAHANET network in the Control room provides various facilities to Collector Office, Taluka Offices and other Govt. offices in Thane District. The facilities include

With increase in usage of MAHANET facilities mentioned above, there is reduction in expenditure and time, expediting easy communication with Mantralaya, all Commissioner offices and Yashada Pune.

V.H.F. Network is established at District Control room Thane and all 15 Tahsils along with mobile V.H.F. setup in Collector's vehicle and 5 SDO'S vehicles. The V.H.F. base station is located at Thane and Kalyan - Dombivili Municipal Corporation.

A separate control room is established during Monsoon season, which works round the clock.
The contact no. is +91-22-2534 5130.

EARTHQUAKES:
Earthquakes have large spatial and temporal impacts. Resource requirements are both intensive and extensive for management of earthquakes, in terms of the number of agencies involved and the nature of coordination required

1) The lead agencies involved in the management of earthquakes are Revenue, Police, Fire (Municipal Corporation’s and Council’s) and Medical Services (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer).

2) Due to extensive damage to infrastructure, the MTNL, BSNL, MSEB, MJP and PWD play an important role in the management of this disaster.

3) As a result of earthquakes, floods and epidemics can also occur. Therefore stress is laid on measures taken to ensure coordination with Health (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer) and Irrigation & Minor Irrigation departments

FLOODS:
Floods occur with warning, while flash flood occur with very little warning. Flood prone areas in India are demarcated as either blue or red lines depending on the frequency of occurrence. Blue lines are those areas where floods can occur once every five years whereas red lines are areas where floods can occur once every hundred years.

The resource requirements for management of flood are extremely intensive involving large-scale mobilization of resources.

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1) The lead agencies are the Revenue, Police, Irrigation, and Medical services (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer).

2) Extensive damage to Infrastructure and public utilities is possible hence the role of supporting agencies such as MJP, MSEB, BSNL, MTNL and PWD is crucial.

3) The loss to crop or plantation demands involvement of Agriculture Department, Zilla Parishad.

4) Loss of cattle will bring in the role for Animal Husbandry and Zilla Parishad.

5) The assistance and intervention of the EOC (Emergency Operation Centre), Mantralaya is essential to support the district administration in the management of these disasters.

6) Additionally, secondary disasters such as epidemics may be caused due to floods and must be monitored by Public Health Department (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer).

EPIDEMICS:
The existing water quality monitoring and vector control programme reduces the possibility of spread of epidemics to a considerable extent. Efficient response from pathological and testing laboratories helps in early diagnosis of the possible epidemic.

1) The Revenue and Health department (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer) including the Medical service is the main agency involved in disaster management during epidemics.

2) In the case of epidemics accompanying floods the water supply and sanitation department (Municipal council’s & Corporations), MJP and Irrigation department are the support agencies.

3) Apart from these support services, assistance is also sought from the Police, Civil Defence, Home Guards, PWD, State Transport (MSRTC) and the media District Information Officer (DIO).

ROAD ACCIDENTS:
The major road accidents are highly localised.
The response machinery that is to be activated is at a much more local level (Municipal Corporation & Municipal Council and Local Transport Police Officials)
In case of road accidents involving toxic and highly inflammable materials, there is need for temporary evacuation.

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1) The lead agencies are Revenue, Police and the Regional Transport Office.

2) In major accidents involving loss of life and injuries to a large number of people, services of agencies such as fire services (Municipal Corporation & Municipal Council), health department (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer) will be needed.

3) In the case of a vehicle plunge in the river, services of divers for rescue operations are required.

1) The main agencies involved in disaster management are the Revenue Department, Local Fire Service (Municipal Council or Municipal Corporation), Medical Services (Civil Surgeon & District Health Officer) and Police (local Police Station),

2) In the event of a major fire, the local fire service (Municipal Council or Municipal corporation) would need to co-ordinate with the MSEB and the water supply department (Local or MJP) for assistance in containment of the fire.

3) Major evacuation may call for support from DCR (District Control Room).

INDUSTRIAL AND CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS:
Off-site industrial accidents are in the form of fires, explosions and toxic gas leaks.
The responsibility of declaring an industrial accident as off-site rests with the management of the industrial unit where the accident has occurred.
The most crucial decision in off-site industrial accident management is the recognition / identification of the stage at which the responsibility is handed over from the management to the public authorities. The public authority will be the District Collector when the disaster is likely to impact a larger area.

The main participating agencies in the management of off-site industrial disasters are:
Revenue
Police
Fire
Medical Services
Civil Defence
PWD
Industry
MARG
Public Health and regulatory environmental agencies (Civil Surgeon District Health Officer & Directorate of Industrial Safety & Health).

To enable effective immediate response, specialists are required to Provide fast, reliable information on the properties of the substance released, Its potential hazard, Protective equipment required, Containment and control measures to be taken and advice on the decontamination and emergency termination activities required.

CYCLONES:
Cyclones can be predicted sufficiently in advance but its impact location over land is uncertain. The resource requirements for management of cyclone impact are extremely intensive involving large-scale mobilization of resources.

1) The lead agencies are the Fire, Police and Health departments.
Extensive damage to infrastructure and public utilities is possible hence the role of supporting agencies such as MJP, MSEB, BSNL, MTNL and PWD is crucial.

2) The loss to crop or plantation demands involvement of Agriculture Department
Loss of cattle will bring in the role for Animal Husbandry.

3) The assistance and intervention of the EOC (Emergency Operation Centre, Mantralaya) is essential to support the district administration in the management of these disasters.

4) Additionally, secondary disasters such as epidemics may be caused due to floods resulting from cyclones and must be monitored by Public Health Department (Civil Surgeon District Health Officer).