Prone to frequent natural disasters, Jammu and Kashmir is working on a dynamic real-time online system to raise alerts and coalesce data, including data from the India Meteorological Department, for prompt analysis and liner–form actions to mitigate the impact of any disaster.
The J&K government with the help of technical and financial support of the World Bank has worked out on an online project to connect the spot of disaster to the departments concerned in real time for a prompt action “without wasting time in alerting the departments separately”.
The Integrated Operational Forecasting System is being put in place under the Jhelum and Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP), set up after the 2014 devastating floods that saw an estimated loss of ₹1 trillion to the Kashmir division and around 300 deaths in J&K.
