Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeRoorkee

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

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DISASTER MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT

Contact Us:

Dr. Mahua Mukherjee

HeadTel: +91-1332-285401

Email: mahuafap@iitr.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitr.ac.in/centers/COEDMM/pages/Home.html

Postal Address

Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM)

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India

Email: coe_dmm@iitr.ac.in

Telephone: +91-1332-286616

Fax: +91-1332-286617

Director’s Message

The contemporary world is facing increasingly complex risks. We need technological

and engineering solutions to address these risks in order to build a more adaptable and

resilient present, as well as future. As a premier technical institution of the country, IIT

Roorkee has been contributing towards providing solutions to these challenges. It is our

endeavour to keep abreast of the challenges and opportunities in the field of disaster

mitigation and management. The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and

Management (CoEDMM) in IIT Roorkee serves as a resource for professionals and

students from diverse disciplines to address real life problems through innovative

research, collaboration and education. The Centre is currently reviewing its journey

since inception to learn from its experiences and develop it into an important national

resource. Within a few years of its birth, CoEDMM already has many achievements and

seeks to increasingly contribute towards the national vision “To build a safer and

disaster resilient India by a holistic, pro-active, technology driven and sustainable

development strategy that involves all stakeholders and fosters a culture of prevention,

preparedness and mitigation”.

(A.K. Chaturvedi)

Vision

Mission:

To emerge as a Premier Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Risk Management for sustainable habitat

Human resource development for disaster mitigation and management to protect the people, environment and economy and ensure a disaster resilient society through education, research and development.

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Dr. Mahua MukherjeeAssociate Professor & Head

Message From Head

The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) is knowledge development centre on hazard sciences. Its aim is to understand risks of society towards natural and man-made hazards, to impart techno-managerial education to the next generation students, facilitate researchers through advanced research facilities for innovative knowledge generation, and share the same through science and technology advises to professional managers in disaster risks, vulnerable communities, analysts and policy makers.

Integrated program of the Centre enhances the quality of learning experience for graduate and professional students who participate in the Centre's research and education projects. With the ever increasing pace at which technology is expanding its reach in today's dynamic world and with the ever growing need for unparalleled demands, the onus is on developing managers with that perfect touch of technical expertise. CoEDMM has the distinction of being the only institute in the country where perfect blend of engineers and scientists meets management discipline producing the techno-managers required to build and maintain disaster resilience.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR, 2015) has brought a sweeping change in disaster management perspective. Paradigm shift towards risk management brings big data management and networking into the focus. The CoEDMM is committed to work for risk resilience and in bringing changes at local, national and global level as important knowledge partner.

(Mahua Mukherjee)

Introduction: Conforming to the National vision on Disaster Management promulgated by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), "To build a safer and disaster resilient India by a holistic, pro-active, technology driven and sustainable development strategy that involves all stakeholders and fosters a culture of prevention, preparedness and mitigation", and to promote the shift from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention and disaster risk reduction, The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM) was established on March 27, 2006 at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The CoEDMM is the first centre in India for Disaster Mitigation and Management committed to capacity building through educational program, cutting edge research and training on disasters, risk, vulnerability, mitigation and resilience aligned with national and international disaster risk reduction strategies by promoting scientific and technological interventions. Having faculty with domain expertise in all fields of disaster mitigation and management equipped with international standard research and development facilities like Climate Change and Wind Engineering Lab, Bio-Chemical Disaster Assessment Lab, Earthquake and Landslide Risk Assessment Lab, Wind Simulation Lab, Industrial/Manmade Risk Assessment Lab, High-Performance Computing Lab, Shake Table Lab of Earthquake Risk, the centre is poised as premier institute for capacity building, research and consultancy projects in the field of natural, and Industrial disasters, Resilient Critical Infrastructure and Risk management at National and International level.

IIT Roorkee: IIT Roorkee has the distinction of being the First Engineering College of India established in 1847 AD called then as 'The Roorkee College'. The College was renamed as The Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854 and in November 1949 was elevated to the First Engineering University of Independent India. Since its establishment, the University of Roorkee has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the country and in pursuit of research. The University has contributed to all sectors of technological development in the country. On the 21st September 2001, the University was declared an institute of national importance changing its status from 'University of Roorkee' to 'Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee'. The main campus in Roorkee has an area of 365 acres and a campus of 25 acres in Saharanpur and 10 acres campus in Greater Noida.

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN DISASTER MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT (CoEDMM)

Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM): The CoEDMM was established as an interdisciplinary Centre of Disaster Mitigation and Management funded by MHRD, Govt. of India in 2006 with an objective of becoming a multi-disciplinary research hub that specifically caters to the disaster risk mitigation and development of disaster resilience in India. The centre offers M.Tech program in Disaster Mitigation and Management since 2012. The first research scholar joined the centre in 2008; in the same year the first consultancy project was accepted. Research conducted in the CoEDMM broadly covers all hazards and scope of the research extends beyond hazard science; vulnerability and risk assessment and management are pursued by researchers.

In addition to laboratory facilities available with different core departments and instrumentation centre of IIT Roorkee, centre has also developed its own research laboratories catering to specific requirements of researchers. Some of the notable sponsored/research projects are earthquake early warning systems, vulnerability and risk analysis of geo-hazards in Himalayan regions, rehabilitation and retrofitting of heritage buildings, seismic strengthening technologies and comparative assessment of various retrofit techniques for unreinforced masonry (URM) school buildings in India, documentation of traditional earthquake resistant building technologies from SAARC countries, wind tunnel studies for various real-life projects across India, bioremediation of accumulated pesticides, mitigation techniques of contaminated environments etc. In the M.Tech dissertation and doctoral research the centre encourages to cover wider aspects of disaster management and mitigation and risk resilience; e.g. micro-insurances for risk reduction, involvement of corporate in sustainable and holistic development, humanitarian logistics during disaster relief and rescue, escape route and evacuation planning, simulating of tropical cyclones, studies on urban heat island, cyber breach, seismic retrofitting from architectural perspective etc. The Centre patronises research in all possible diversities with the sole aim of building the resilient nation.

OBJECTIVES:

• To build and strengthen national capacity to reduce the impacts of natural, technological and environmental disasters through multi-disciplinary technological and scientific interventions.

• To stimulate research and application, provide knowledge, convey experience, build capabilities for reducing or preventing severe and recurrent impacts of hazards, for most vulnerable communities.

• To increase opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaborations to foster scientific, technical and managerial contributions to the public decision-making process in matters of hazard, risk and disaster prevention.

• To develop comprehensive risk assessments, risk reduction strategies for the analysis and expression of the socio-economic impacts of disasters and risk mitigation for disaster prevention by establishing nationally and professionally agreed standards / methodologies.

The CoEDMM provides and ensures an academic and research environment, which is conducive to preparing disaster managers who can handle challenges associated with risk management due to multidisciplinary nature of their specialization. The programme and specialization are designed in such a fashion that it yields a skill-set that has optional compatibility with the competency set anticipated by Govt, Public and Private sector industry, NGOs, Consultants and other agencies.

M.Tech program

The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, launched the very first Masters' Program (M.Tech.) of two years duration in 2012. Students come through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (National Entrance Examination) and sponsored by reputed national agencies. The program prides itself of encompassing all hazard approach for sustainable development and resilience of the nation.

Ph.D. Program

Research programmes leading to the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) facilitated in the Centre. The Centre currently has 21 doctoral students pursuing research in fields related to disaster risk reduction creating opportunities for independent and cutting edge research.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

ALUMNI

With the unique techno-managerial expertise, alumni of the CoEDMM are well placed in different fields pertaining to disaster management and risk mitigation.

Some of our alumni are working with Government authorities dealing with Disaster like Department of Science and Technology, IMD etc. They are well-suited for disaster managers' role for various types of Industrial risk assessments and managements. Our Alumni are also in Industries outside countries. Educational/ Training Institutes, Non-governmental organizations and Socio-technical entrepreneurship are alternative options for our Alumni.

Some of they are pursuing higher studies in reputed national and International reputed Institutes like Texas Tech University, Cornell University, Kyoto University and Tongji University, China.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES LABORATORIES

MultidisciplinaryResearch

Earthquake Early Warning

SystemGIS based

Decision Support System for Landslide

Remote Sensing and UAVs

for Disaster Management

ICT in Disaster

Management

Humanitarian Supply Chain Management

Crowd Management

Aerodynamic Simulation of Wind load on

High-rise Structure

Wind Tunnel Testing

Traditional Wisdom and Vernacular

Construction Techniques

Multi-hazard Safe Habitat

Hazard, Vulnerability

and Risk Assessment

Flood Modelling/ Simulation,

Forecasting

Drought Prediction and

Monitoring

Industrial and Fire Risk

Assessment

Bioremediation of Accumulated

Pesticides

Environmental Contamination

Mitigation

Urban Climate Research

Central FacilitiesInstitute Instrumentation Centre

Bio-Chemical & Radio-nuclear

ClimatologyClimatology Lab in Architecture & Planning Department

• Climate Change and Wind Engineering Lab• Incident Management Simulation Lab

Meteorology• Wind Lab in Civil Department • Hydro-meteorological Lab in Hydrology Department

HydrologyWatershed Hydrology Lab in Hydrology Department

GeotechnicalEarthquake & Landslide Risk AssessmentLaboratory

• Structural, Soil Dynamics Lab (Earthquake Deptt.)• Seismological Observatory in Earthquake Deptt.

• Climate Change and Wind Engineering Lab• Wind Simulation Lab

• Physics Department• Fire Lab in Mechanical Department

Nuclear Physics Lab in • Risk Assessment Laboratory• Industrial / Man-made Disaster Risk Assessment Lab

Bio-Chemical Disaster

Experimental Watershed in the Lesser Himalaya

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

BIOTECHOLOGY

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

CIVIL ENGINEERING

FACULTY

Lakra, H. S.Research Interests: Culture Based Planning, Public Realm and cultural reproduction and socio-economic development of ethnic communities, Vernacular Architecture Email Id: hsl31fap@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-284775

Mukherjee, Mahua (Head of the Centre)Research Interests: Sustainable and Smart Built Environment, Urban Climate, Resilient Affordable HousingEmail Id: mahuafap@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285334

Nawani, N. K.Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Synthetic Biology, Gene Regulation, Microbial Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology, Aptamers and Mems Nanodevices Email Id: navnifbs@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285677

Pathania, RanjanaResearch Interests: Molecular Biology, Bacterial Pathogenesis, Role Of Small Rna In Acinetobacter Baumannii, Antibacterial Drug Discovery, Chemical GenomicsEmail Id: rpathfbs@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285324

Dhiman, Amit

Research Interests:

Fluid Mechanics, Cfd, Non-Newtonian Fluids, Bluff Body Flow And Heat Transfer, Fvm And Fdm Solvers

Email Id: amitdfch@iitr.ac.in

Contact: 01332-285890

Sinha, Shishir

Research Interests:

Blended Polymer Composits, Polymer Surface Modification Polymer Composites, Nano Composites Ion Exchanger

Email Id: shishir@iitr.ac.in

Contact: 01332-285648

Gairola, Ajay

Research Interests:

Wind Engineering,

Pedestrian Wind Environment

Email Id: garryfce@iitr.ac.in

Contact: 01332-285460

Garg, P K

Research Interests:

Satellite Image Analysis, (Landuse Mapping, Land Surveying, Digital Image Processing, GPS Survey and GIS

Email Id: gargpfce@iitr.ac.in

Contact: 01332-285462

Jain, Kamal

Research Interests:

Analytical, Digital and Satellite Photogrammetry, Close Range Photogrammetry; 3D Virtual City Mapping , GIS, Vehicle Navigation and Tracking

Email Id: kjainfce@iitr.ac.in

Contact: 01332-285465

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

EARTH SCIENCES

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

FACULTY

Roy, SudipResearch Interests: Electronic Design Automation, Algorithm Design, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Internet of Things (IoTs) Based Application DevelopmentEmail Id: sudiproy.fcs@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-284815

Goswami, AjantaResearch Interests: Application of Remote Sensing, For Geological & Geohazards Study;Cryospheric Study, Using Earth Observation & Ground Based StudyEmail Id: ajanta.fes@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-284835

Joshi, AnandResearch Interests: Strong Motion Seismology, Attenuation Tomography, Simulation Of Strong Ground MotionEmail Id: anandfes@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285887

KamalResearch Interests: Seismology, Seismic Hazard Assessment, Earthquake Triggering, FractalsEmail Id: kamalfes@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285526

Das, J. D.Research Interests: Seismo-Tectonics, Remote Sensing, GIS, Seismic HazardsEmail Id: jddasfeq@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285264

Maheshwari, B. K.Research Interests: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Soil Dynamics, Finite Element Method, Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction, Landslide Hazard Email Id: bkmahfeq@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285450

Jakka, R. S.Research Interests: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Slope Stability, Landslides, Dynamic Site Characterization; Seismic Hazard Assessment, Local Site Effects & Earthquake Early Warning Email Id: jakkafeq@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285591

Sharma, M. L. Research Interests: Engineering Seismology, Seismotectonics, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Digital Telemetered Seismic Arrays, SAR Interferometry, Strong Ground Motion Prediction, Seismic MicrozonationEmail Id: mukutfeq@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285536

Singh, Yogendra Research Interests: Performance Based Seismic Design, Performance Based Design of Buildings and Bridges; Seismic Response Evaluation of Structures, Non-Linear Modelling and Analysis of RC StructuresEmail Id: yogenfeq@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285534

RESEARCH SCHOLARS

Manoj KuriResearch Topic: Studies on terrain deformation and landslide movements in Himalaya using DINSAR

SangeetaResearch Topic: Earthquake Induced Landslide Hazard Assessment in Uttarakhand

Urvashi MeenaResearch Topic: GIS based decision support system for landslide

Annie SinglaResearch Topic: Use of Information and Communication technologies in Disaster Management

Himani MaheshwariResearch Topic: Object Based Expert System for the Estimation of Carbon Footprint

Praveen Kumar SinghResearch Topic: Modeling Black Carbon and its Radiative Forcing on Northern Himalaya

Ashutosh SharmaResearch Topic: Aerodynamic Simulation of Wind Load on High Rise Structures

Abhilasha DixitResearch Topic: Cryosphere Studies of Indian Himalayas

Bhanu Pratap ChamoliResearch Topic: Earthquake Early Warning System

Madapala JeevanResearch Topic: Urban flooding and low impact development; Hypothetical Damage Scenarios

Hemant MittalResearch Topic: Investigation of Pedestrian Wind around Buildings

Akshay PandeyResearch Topic: Web Based Vegetation Health System

Prashant SrivastavaResearch Topic: Study and Preparation of Reinforced Polymer Composite of Hair Fiber

Sashikanta SahooResearch Topic: Ground Water Quality Study

Ganesh KumarResearch Topic: Modelling of wind flow pattern affecting snowdrift

Vickyson NaoremResearch Topic: Urban Resilience to Floods

Repaul KanjiResearch Topic: A Study on Developing Disaster Resilience through CSR

Ravi Kiran NandyalaResearch Topic: Soil- Foundation-Structure interaction

Pankaj KumarResearch Topic: Local Site Effects on Earthquake Early Warning Parameters

FACULTY

Arya, D.S.Research Interests:GIS and Remote Sensing Applications, Urban Floods, Climate Change Impact Studies, Hydrological Data AnalysisEmail Id: dsarya@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285370

Goel, N.K.Research Interests:Stochastic Hydrology, Extreme Value Estimation; Flood Estimation and Forecasting, Modeeling, Power Generation Projects and Pipeline Projects; Email Id: goelnfhy@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285814

Sen, SumitResearch Interests:Water Movement Through Various Watershed Components, Surface Runoff Generation MechanismsEmail Id: ssenhfhy@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-284754

Agarwal, RajatResearch Interests:Supply Chain Management, CSR, Crowd Management, Industrial Safety Email Id: rajatfdm@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285737

Rao, M.K.Research Interests:HR Planning, Business Law, Management of Self &Interpersonal Dynamics, HR CSREmail Id: mkraofdm@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-284759

Kumar, RaviResearch Interests:Thermal Engineering, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioining, Two-Phase Flow & HeatTransfer, Instrumentation and MeasurementsEmail Id: ravikfme@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285740

Singh, InderdeepResearch Interests:Composite Materials; Conceptualization and Development, Manufacturing of Polymer and Metal Matrix Composites, Natural Fiber Based Green CompositesEmail Id: inderfme@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285614

Chatterjee, RajdeepResearch Interests:Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Low and MediumEnergy Nuclear Reaction DynamicsAway from Stability, Nuclear AstrophysicsOpen Quantum SystemsEmail Id: rcfphfph@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285698

Gourishetty, Anil K.Research Interests:Experimental Nuclear Physics,Nuclear Astrophysics, Monte Carlo Simulation of Response of Radiation Detectors, Environmental radioactivityEmail Id: anilgfph@iitr.ac.inContact: 01332-285133

Akansha PatelResearch Topic: Cryosphere Studiesof Weastern Himalayas

M.Tech (Batch: 2016-18)

Anubhav KumarResearch Topic: Recyclability analysis of green composites

Atul KumarResearch Topic: Temporal alteration of urban climate in Gurugram : UHI characterization

Deepak RawatResearch Topic: Assessment of a typical landslide in Uttarakhand and mitigation solutions

Dhanu SinghResearch Topic: Crowd management : Simulation and Analysis

Ila PrakashResearch Topic: Hydrological aspects of June 28th 2017 flood at IIT Roorkee

Ishita BhatnagarResearch Topic: Groundwater deterioration due to urbanization

Jagrati SehgalResearch Topic: Green interventions to mitigate the effect of Urban Heat Island

Preet Pal SinghResearch Topic: Technological Disasters

Rupak KumarResearch Topic: Hydrological time series data analysis of river Nagavali

Vivek Singh YadavResearch Topic: Reservoir-induced seismicity

Anjali Kesarwani Ahmad Rashiq

Anurag Srivastava Chaitanya Singh

Brian Basumatary Mohana Manna

Shalu Mathuria Siddharth Jena

Tanu Gupta

FUTURE PLANS

The CoEDMM envisages its role in national and international platform

through significant contribution. The Centre, in future, will be involved

with greater intensity in capacity building, vulnerability and risk

assessment, planing for risk resilience and reduce disaster risk in order

to protect communities, their livelihoods, health, cultural heritage,

socioeconomic assets and ecosystems by strengthening their

resilience. Centre shall play vital role in furthering the national agenda

set through various instruments like DM Act 2005, DM Policy, DM Plan,

NPDRR and Prime Minister's 10 point agenda on disaster risk

reduction.

The centre aims to be part of the National Mission in achieving four

priority areas of Sendai framework for DRR 2015-2030 i.e.

understanding disaster risk, strengthening disaster risk governance,

investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience and enhancing disaster

preparedness for effective response and to 'Build Back Better' in

recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction by providing technical,

scientific and managerial human resource and expertise in

collaboration with National and International agencies.

The CoEDMM plans for sharing disaster management and risk

resilience knowledge through different missions of National and State

governments e.g. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Smart City, Atal

Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, Gram Panchayat

Development Plan, National Mission for Himalayan Studies etc.

M.Tech (Batch: 2017-19)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Department of Science and TechnologyMinistry of Science and Technology

Government of India

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Govt. of India

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Ministry of Earth SciencesGovernment of India

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