Overview
- Thane’s disaster team, which met Monday, ordered safety audits of risky bridges, culverts and old buildings and directed dam inspections with technical reports.
- Officials will expand Aapda Mitra volunteers and run mock drills in every taluka to test response time and improve rescue readiness.
- Dedicated control rooms will be set up at subdivision and tehsil levels to speed coordination, alerts and public assistance during heavy rain.
- The National Highways Authority and PWD must keep JCBs, excavators and dumpers stationed at landslide‑prone ghat sections, with District Planning Committee funds covering rescue gear.
- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will add IoT sensors to all 545 dewatering pumps and monitor them from a central room to catch failures early after last year’s breakdowns.