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India has a diverse set of geographical conditions which demands a local approach to deal with emergencies. With this pandemic and lockdown the plight of the migrant workers who have to move thousands of miles back to their homes cannot be ignored with no internet ,less or almost no mobile phones and are clueless as to what needs to be done so our proposal is a real time location based platform which would be used for preparedness and mitigation by  sending messages/calls to citizens over feature phones in a language understandable to them.This platform has government, citizens and volunteers together ensuring last mile communication and connectivity. It manages the relief activity to the marginalised communities and takes feedback from them to gauge whether or not the help has been received or not to the intended ones or not .

In the last 17 years, India has faced more than 300 natural disasters and stands first in the world for people affected due to disaster.Annual average death rate due to natural calamity is 5236. We are the 14th most vulnerable country in the world of natural disaster. India loses $9.8 Billion due to multi Hazard disaster also with this pandemic the number of deaths have been unmatched.We found out that a large number of casualties could be avoided if we had a better preparedness model. A preparedness model generally revolves around creating awareness so that the citizens are better equipped to handle crises with less panic and take informed decisions. To have an impactful awareness model we need to reach out to the people who are most neglected and are at the lowest level of the social-economic strata . They have  minimum resources ,more vulnerability and less understanding of emergency situations and without whom there could be no complete transformation given the demographics of India.Our solution looks into all the above mentioned issues with an aim to mitigate these crises

How might we create a better government-citizen communication system in case of national emergencies. Here we are targeting both preparedness as well as dealing with the rescue and relief .This calls in for a collaboration within the system which is trustworthy, accessible, vigilant, affordable and functions in real time.
The people of a particular pincode location would be reached through mobile phones by  SMS / IVRS / Calls / Web depending on the medium accessible to them. As per the meteorological department guidelines citizens will be given information on time ranging from a month before to a 12-hour prior red alert . Authentication of the users would be done by national repositories like aadhar and pan or whichever is best suitable locally . The platform would have real-time tracking and feedback of the affected people and volunteers to ensure last mile communication / connectivity and relief received to the one’s promised.

We are targeting the marginalised sections of the society who do not have access to androids and internet because of which they are ignorant of the matters of the state and the criticality of the situations such as pandemics and disasters.We plan to reach out to them via SMS/IVRS/Calls on their feature phone and the ones without any mobile phones  will be given a provision of someone else registering them on their behalf and conveying messages which informs them as to  what needs be done at the moment of crisis. Messages would straight away come from the government incharge of the district (they are currently in/registered from) eliminating circulation of fake information. Others who have access to digital media could directly reach out to the digital platform with their logins or receive messages on their androids.

Our solution reduces the panic during emergencies by providing authentic real- time information and gives the citizens a chance to better prepare themselves and seek help from the government during crisis. Our platform also takes constant feedback from them to ensure a duplex communication.

India has a diverse set of geographical conditions which demands a local approach to deal with emergencies. With this pandemic and lockdown the plight of the migrant workers who have to move thousands of miles back to their homes cannot be ignored with no internet ,less or almost no mobile phones and are clueless as to what needs to be done so our proposal is a real time location based platform which would be used for preparedness and mitigation by  sending messages/calls to citizens over feature phones with relevant and help information .