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The Ministry of Railways has worked out Emergency Support Function (ESF) Plan 2004, providing rail transportation emergency support to the Ministry of Home Affairs in the event of natural or man made disasters.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Railways has set up a Quick Response Team (QRT) at the apex for emergency response. Additional General Managers of nine old Zonal Railways and Chief Operations Managers of seven newly created Zones form part of the QRT under the overall supervision of the Railway Board.
Besides, nodal officers in Zones, Divisions and at stations have been designated at the field level with their addresses and telephones to provide quick response in case of national calamities to deploy the railway resources to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Under the Emergency Support Function Plan—2004, the Ministry of Railways will be in a position to make available the Railway Transportation over the entire network of Indian Railways. The Plan seeks to ensure adequacy of rail transportation for accomplishing the Emergency support assigned to the Ministry of Railways.
The Ministry of Home Affairs is the nodal Ministry in the Union of India for the National Disaster Management.
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