Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) has recently bagged the IT Excellence Award, 2019 for leveraging innovative concept by using information technology in the area of disaster management, according to the information of a senior official.
In accordance with the official, the “SATARK” (System for Assessing, Tracking and Alerting Disaster Risk Information based on Dynamic Risk Knowledge) has been chosen for the award.
OSDMA Managing Director B P Sethi said, “Odisha has now become a “model state” in disaster preparedness and risk mitigation.”
He also added, “The application, both in web and mobile, has been developed in the state to provide real time watch, alert and warning information for different natural disasters and hazards such as heat wave, lightning, agriculture risk, flood, tsunami, earthquake, cyclone or storm, road accident and snakebite.”
“We give different level of warnings and issue corresponding advisories based on the event scenario. It is available both in Odia and English languages,” Sethi said.