Anniruddh's Academy Of Diaster Managment

Aniruddha's Academy of Disaster Management (AADM), is a charitable organization incorporated in April 2005 with 'Disaster Management' as principal objective.

This organization gives basic training to citizens and specialized training for trained people. The training course is of 7 days which covers all aspects important for facing any type of disaster.

Apart from the training course currently AADM's scope of operation includes the following things
-> Providing assistance to civic body during Natural and Man made Disaster
-> Providing crowd control seva at various public functions
-> Vermiculture project
-> Pulse Polio Vaccination drives


Basic Training Course:

The basic training course includes training of first aid which helps to save ones life until peeper medical assistance arrives at the place of disaster. The training course also covers information of all possible disaster, they can be natural or manmade and ways to respond to them. Most interestingly the course also includes practical sessions that includes various Rescue Methods, CPCR techniques, Fire fighting  etc.
 

The course includes 8 lectures on various disasters and their management and on the final day written and oral exam. The academy has so far successfully trained more than forty-thousand citizens, many of whom have become DMV's.

There is one reference book available which contains the syllabus of the basic training course as well as details of disaster management techniques. The name of reference book is 'The textbook of Disaster Management' prepared by Academy has proved to be the great help in training the average citizen on how to save one’s life first in order to be able to save other people’s lives




 Natural Diasters:

When Mumbai and in fact the entire state of Maharashtra was caught unawares in the grip of the floods caused by the torrential rains of 26th July 2005, the disaster management team of AADM reached out to several places within and outside Mumbai to assist the local administration and the police in the rescue operations. The efforts put in by the DMVs of AADM during the rescue operations was greatly appreciated and was acknowledged in the form of an invitation to participate in the ‘Monsoon Disaster Plan (2007)’ launched by the municipal authorities of Mumbai. The heavy showers in July 2007 too led to floods in several areas of Mumbai.

The AADM, adhering to its basic objective, rushed its DMVs to the sites where flooding had occurred and helped regulate traffic and transport people to safety. In doing so, the DMVs adopted innovative techniques, such as making rafts from used plastic bottles, for ferrying people to safety. Landslides like the one that occurred at Saki Naka, Mumbai on 26th July 2005, are instances of disasters, that require trained human intervention.

The DMVs played a major role in assisting the local authorities, fire brigade and police in extricating bodies that were trapped in the rubble of the landslide and also helped in saving lives, under extremely challenging conditions.

Being trained in handling incidents of fire, the DMVs extend help and first aid, as they did at Jogeshwari (a fire at the office of Fairdeal Corporation Ltd.) and Sakinaka (fire caused by short circuit at Hansa Ind. Estate) in Mumbai on 26th January, 2006 and 6th July, 2006, respectively.


Man-Made Disasters :

In the recent past, the city of Mumbai has been witness to acts of terrorism by way of bomb blast, in which many an innocent life has been lost. The serial blast in the suburban train compartments of the Western Railway on 11th July 2006, sent a wave of panic among the citizens. The DMVs promptly reached the various sites and assisted the authorities in rescuing people from the debris and transporting the injured as well as the dead bodies to nearby hospitals.

 
The DMVs also actively participated in the relief work following the bomb blast in Mumbai at Ghatkopar on 2.12.02 and at Mumbai Central on 6.12.02; they not only helped transport victims to local hospitals but also helped their relatives to complete the registration formalities at the hospital