SOP for Flood Forecasting & Early Warning - UNESCO Islamabad

V )
Liaison with PTC’s Coordination officer provide 24 hours maintenance services for the
teleprinters, Internet & the office and residential telephones of all the flood related
functionaries.
Vi ) Conduct a familiarization training of the senior cadre and junior cadre government ,
functionaries actively involved in the process of flood mitigation. Senior cadre training
may be limited to one day only and must include such functionaries as the Relief
Commissioner, Director General ( Relief) , Chief Engineer, Hydrology WAPDA, Chief
Engineer FFC , Chief Engineer, Hydrology and drainage PIDA, Director Flood PIDA ,
Director PDMA.
Training for the junior cadrs may extend to a period of one week for the persons from
various provincial and federal departments actually posted on flood duties.
3.2.1 Functions during the Flood Season
Chief Met, FFD is personally responsible for the issuance of timely and reliable flood
forecast/warning to afford pre-flood imitation measures to reduce damage to the life and
property due to floods. He is required to remain in touch with his office even outside the
working hours to maintain a close watch on the flood generating weather situations. In case
situation for Category-II or category-III floods develop he is to give advance verbal
briefings to R.C. Punjab, Chairman FFC, DG Engineers ( Army), DG Met, Chairman
NDMA and Member (water) WAPDA. Such briefings should be over and above the
written qualitative forecasts issued when the approaching monsoon low/ depressions draws
closer. In order to avoid undue public panic, flood forecasts to the public should be given,
only when the possibility of floods has positively developed, in which case suitably tailored
flood forecast must be provided to the press and the electronic media in time. The benefit
of the improved flood forecasting system must reach the public by way of more reliable
and more advance flood information to them. It is also important that the necessary trust be
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