Mock drills: Full list of districts where exercise will be conducted
The mock drills will entail crash-blackout measures, early camouflaging of vital plants and installations and updating and rehearsing evacuation plans.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday directed all states and union territories to conduct mock drills to check preparedness against "new and complex threats". The direction came amid tension with Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack.
The ministry's statement said the drills will be carried out at the 244 categorised civil defence districts across the country on May 7.
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Here's the full list of these districts:
Category I – High Priority Locations
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh
Visakhapatnam
Arunachal Pradesh
Aalo (West Siang), Itanagar, Tawang
Assam
Hayuling, Bongaigaon, Dibrugarh, Dhubri, Goalpara, Jorhat, Sibsagar, Tinsukia, Tezpur, Digboi, Duliajan, Guwahati (Dispur), Rangia, Namrup, Nazira, North Lakhimpur, Numaligarh
Bihar
Barauni, Katihar, Patna, Purnea, Begusarai
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Durg (Bhilai)
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Silvasa
Daman & Diu
Daman
Delhi
Delhi (including New Delhi and Cantonment)
Goa
North Goa (Panaji), South Goa (Mormugao, Vasco, Dabolim)
Gujarat
Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Kakrapar, Jamnagar, Gandhinagar, Bhavnagar, Kandla, Nalia, Ankleshwar, Okha, Vadinar
Haryana
Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hissar, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamunanagar
Himachal Pradesh
Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir (including Ladakh)
Anantnag, Pulwama, Badgam, Baramulla, Doda, Jammu, Kargil, Kathua, Kupwara, Leh, Poonch, Rajauri, Srinagar, Udhampur, Samba, Akhnoor, Uri, Naushera, Sunderbani, Awantipur
Jharkhand
Bokaro, Gomio, Jamshedpur, Ranchi
Karnataka
Bengaluru (Urban), Malleshwaram, Raichur
Kerala
Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram
Lakshadweep
Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Katni
Maharashtra
Mumbai, Uran, Tarapur, Thane, Pune, Nasik, Rohn-Dhatao-Nagothane, Monmad, Sinner, Thal-Vayshot, Pimpri-Chinchwad
Manipur
Imphal, Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Moreh, Ningthoukhong
Meghalaya
Shillong (East Khasi Hills), Jawai (Jaintia Hills), Tura (West Garo Hills)
Mizoram
Aizawl
Nagaland
Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung, Mon, Phek, Tuensang, Wokha, Zunheboto, Kiphire, Peren
Odisha
Talcher, Hirakud, Paradip, Rourkela, Balasore, Koraput, Bhubaneswar, Gopalpur
Puducherry
Puducherry
Punjab
Amritsar, Bhatinda, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Ropar, Sangrur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Pathankot, Adampur, Barnala, Bhakra-Nangal, Halwara, Kotkapura, Batala, Mohali (SAS Nagar), Abohar, Faridpur
Rajasthan
Ajmer, Alwar, Barmer, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bundi, Ganganagar, Phulera (Jaipur), Nagaur (Merta Road), Jalore, Beawar, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Lalgarh, Jaisalmer, Sawai Madhopur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Sikar, Nal, Suratgarh, Abu Road, Nasirabad, Bhivari, Pali, Bhilwara, Kota, Rawatbhata
Sikkim
Gangtok
Tamil Nadu
Chennai, Kalpakkam
Telangana
Hyderabad
Tripura
Agartala
Uttar Pradesh
Bulandshahr (Narora), Agra, Allahabad, Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Varanasi, Bakshi-Ka-Talab, Mughalsarai, Sarsawa, Bagpat, Muzaffarnagar
Uttarakhand
Dehradun
West Bengal
Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Siliguri, Greater Kolkata, Durgapur, Haldia, Hashimara, Kharagpur, Burnpur-Asansol, Farakka-Khejuriaghat, Chittaranjan, Balurghat, Alipurduar, Raiganj, Islampur, Dinhata, Makhiligunj, Mathabhanga, Kalimpong, Jaldhaka, Kurseong, Kolaghat, Bardhaman, Birbhum, East & West Medinipur, Howrah, Hooghly, Murshidabad
Category II – Medium Priority Locations
Assam
Darrang, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong, Kokrajhar
Gujarat
Bharuch, Dangs, Kutch, Mehsana, Narmada, Navsari
Haryana
Jhajjar
Jharkhand
Godda, Sahebganj
Maharashtra
Aurangabad, Bhusawal, Raigarh, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg
Odisha
Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara
Category III – Low Priority Locations
Arunachal Pradesh
Bomdila
The home ministry's notification said the mock drills will check preparedness for the operationalisation of air-raid warning sirens and train civilians on civil-defence aspects to protect themselves in the event of a "hostile attack".
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The mock drills will entail crash-blackout measures, early camouflaging of vital plants and installations and updating and rehearsing evacuation plans.
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The mock drills will also include the operationalisation of hotline and radio-communication links with the Indian Air Force (IAF), testing the functionality of control rooms and shadow control rooms.
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“In the current geo-political scenario, new and complex threats/challenges have emerged, hence, it would be prudent that optimum civil defence preparedness in the states/UTs is maintained at all times,” the letter from the Directorate General Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards said.
"The conduct of the exercise is planned up to the village level. This exercise aims to assess and enhance the readiness of civil defence mechanisms across all states and Union territories," the letter added.
Union home secretary Govind Mohan on Tuesday convened a meeting regarding the conduct of mock drills, which was attended by several high-ranking officials.
"We are reviewing preparedness. Loop holes to be rectified have been identified," a member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told ANI after the meeting.
