The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to take its disaster management work a step higher, for which a budget provision of R18.26 crore has been made. In the upcoming year, the civic body will carry out three types of work – Seismic Microzonation, Tsunami Atlas and Hazard Vulnerable Risk Assessment (HVRA) – in the city. While through Seismic Microzonation they will mostly study the effects of earthquakes and come up with mitigation measures, the HVRA will mainly deal with data of natural and man-made disasters and how the city can be prepared for it. Apart from these, the BMC also plans to set up disaster control rooms at 13 municipal hospitals to get real-time update during an emergency. 

Currently the disaster management plan for the city only includes issues related to water logging and building collapses. Sources said that the HVRA would help the BMC find out whether Mumbai is prone to natural disasters and how they can be dealt with. For example, if an area is more prone to earthquakes, then the buildings there will be constructed or revamped accordingly.