This is How Disaster Management is Carried Out in Dakshina Kannada District: Check Out

Deputy Commissioner M.P. Mullai Muhilan said many areas in the district were identified as disaster-prone areas, including 87 places along the National and State Highways with 34 being along the Charmadi Ghat alone. Some 18 locations under Mangalore City Corporation limits were identified as flood-prone. The government has instructed the district administration to take all precautionary measures to save life and property. Security personnel were deployed along eight beaches, temple towns Kateel, Dharmasthala, and Kukke Subrahmanya, and other flood-prone areas to prevent people from visiting dangerous locations during alerts.

The administration has decentralised the disaster management task ensuring teams at every gram panchayat, and ward of every urban local body. In all, 296 such teams were formed with 233 being in the GP level while each have a nodal officer. Also, 25 NDRF, 38 SDRF, 190 fire and emergency services, and 74 home guards personnel were deployed across the district to tackle natural disasters and help people.