Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Friday, the 16th of December 2022, launched the Nagaland State Disaster Management Information System (NSDMIS) and Decentralized Relief Payout System (DRPS) at Chief Minister Residential Complex, Kohima.
The NSDMA, Home Department is on the path towards developing a decentralized relief payment system to fulfill the obligation of timely relief payment to the affected communities/families by the extreme weather disaster events. The Decentralized Relief Pay-out System (DRPS) is developed with the aim to provide easy access to relief services to the citizens and to mainstream an instant and timely relief payment system for the affected community. Embarking on Blockchains Technology as a powerful way to enhance—or supplant—traditional relief payment systems, NSDMA forges instant relief payment to the remote parts of the State through this platform. The NSDMIS and DRPS is a seamless relief payment software platform powered by BlockChain Technology built by NSDMA and supported by the Insu-Resilience Solution Fund from the Frankfurt Institute of Finance and Management, Germany. The InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) promotes the development of innovative and sustainable climate risk insurance products in developing and emerging countries, to improve the resilience of poor and vulnerable households against the impacts of climate change and natural disasters.
The Nagaland State Disaster Management Information System (NSDMIS) has been developed to simplify the core operations of NSDMA. Core operations include; keeping a record of disasters & funding assistance to disaster-affected people, keeping track of weather patterns to anticipate and mitigate disasters and all aspects related to disasters, and Disaster reduction and mitigation in line with global frameworks such as Sendai and Hyogo Frameworks.
The NSDMIS is unique software, a first-of-its-kind in India, which provides a great opportunity for NSDMA as well as Nagaland to gain recognition at national as well as globally. With the opportunity to be pioneers in the field of digital management of disasters in India with this unique software system, the NSDMIS needs to be given full support by all the stakeholders.
With an increase in data and information, the NSDMIS will become a crucial decision support tool for the key decision makers. In that, the NSDMA will move a step closer to realizing its vision to make Nagaland a disaster-resilient state.
(DIPR)
