Center For Disaster Management

Studying the causes of disasters and developing appropriate technologies for disaster risk reduction
Developing indegenous technologies for addressing problems such as sea erosion which are unique to our region
Providing periodic training/dissemination of knowledge to local community
Monitoring of critical parameters and development of data base
Carrying out damage assessment after disasters and assisting the government in planning the policies for relief distribution
Predicting typical types of disasters based on past histories
Developing IT tools & early warning systems
Economics and policy analysis of disaster risk for sustainable development
Carrying out detailed studies on the vulnerability of lifeline structures of the region and suggest measures for their retrofitting through laboratory as well as field studies
Making recommendations for improving the reliability of important infrastructures of the region in a possible disaster scenario
Developing the centre with modern state-of-the-art equipments/instrumentation
Collaboration with researchers and organizations associated with similar activities at regional, national and international level.