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Climate Change, Disaster
Resilience & Community-Led DRR

Flagship · Science & Innovation For A Safer Rural India

Amrita’s climate-resilience platforms combine AI-IoT early warning, hyperlocal monitoring, GeoAI, crowd intelligence and women-led community networks , delivering 3–24 hour advance disaster warnings and supporting the full cycle from preparedness through adaptation. The work holds the world’s first AI-enabled IoT Landslide Early Warning System, 3*International Program on Landslides (IPL) World Centre of Excellence designations, the NABARD Rural Innovation Award 2012 and the ADA Award 2023.

1 M+

Beneficiaries · 14 Hubs · 25 States

300+

Ai Deep-Earth
Sensors · 24×7

19+ yrs

Continuous Warning
Since 2009

5,000+

Lives Protected

THE INTEGRATED MODEL

AI-Enabled Early
Warning Systems

Multi-Hazard Community
Intelligence

Hyperlocal Climate
Monitoring

CCRRC Community
Resilience Centres

SREE AI Resilience
Platform

Hydroclimatic & Cryosphere Science

FLAGSHIP INITIATIVES

World’s first AI-IoT deep-earth system, 300+ sensors to 33 m depth, operational since 2009 in Munnar and expanded to the Sikkim–Darjeeling Himalayas. Delivers 3–24 hour advance warnings; 5,000+ lives protected.

Integrates landslides, floods, tsunami, drought, heatwaves and disease outbreaks through mobile apps, crowd-sourced reporting, GPS mapping, AI decision support and panchayat-level planning.

Solar-powered weather stations for rainfall, temperature & wind. Remote sensing & GeoAI for flood susceptibility, watershed risk, glacier & GLOF monitoring, and carbon & methane flux assessment.

Real-time flood monitoring with GPS rescue coordination, Kerala Floods 2018: 25,000+ helpline calls, 100,000+ people connected to rescue, coordinated with NDRF, Navy, Police & 400+ volunteers.

AI decision platform integrating climate, water, agriculture, livelihood and health, deployed across 4,500+ households in 10 states. OceanNet supports the Tsunami Ready Programme with INCOIS & IOC-UNESCO.

Multilingual crowd-sourced hazard mapping with GPS reporting & spatio-temporal inventory. Full DRR cycle: Preparedness → Early Warning → Response → Recovery → Climate Adaptation.

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Community resilience & implementation

  • Women-led resilience: 300,000+ AmritaSREE SHG women in climate buffering, microcredit, livelihood diversification and preparedness leadership; 4,500+ SANKALP SHG members.
  • CCRRC hub-and-spoke: 14 hubs · 200 spokes · 25 states; 2,200+ communities served with pre-positioned early warning systems and disaster preparedness training.
  • Disaster response experience: Gujarat Earthquake 2001, Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004, Nepal Earthquake 2015, Kerala Floods 2018, Himalayan landslides & GLOF events.

Dynamic Early Warning, Disaster
Resilience & Community-Led DRR

Disaster Risk Reduction · Hydroclimatic Resilience
· Community Preparedness

A single, community-anchored ecosystem that detects, warns, responds and rebuilds — uniting real-time sensor networks, AI decision systems, hydroclimatic monitoring, ocean observatories, community preparedness and resilience hubs across India’s most hazardexposed regions. 19+ years of compassion-driven, AI-IoT-enabled multi-hazard protection.

3×

IPL World Centre
Of Excellence

300+

Sensors Live 24/7 — Ghats & Himalaya

1 M+

Beneficiaries · 14 CCRRC
Hubs · 25 States

19+ yrs

Warnings Every Monsoon
Since 2009

Full DRR cycle: before, during & after

  • Preparedness: PRA-based multi-hazard risk mapping across all 14 CCRRC villages.
  • Early Warning: AI-IoT landslide & AmritaKripa flood alerts, 3–24 hr ahead.
  • Response: 400+ AYUDH volunteers; Navy, NDRF & police coordination (2018).
  • Recovery: trauma support, PMFBY crop insurance, MGNREGS action plans.
  • Mitigation & Adaptation: tsunami-resistant housing, nature-based slope stabilisation, climate-smart cropping, livelihood diversification, SHG buffers.

CCRRC network & recognition

  • 14 hubs · 200 spokes: pre-positioned resilience centres equipped with telemedicine, digital learning & DRR infrastructure before crises strike.
  • 25 states · 2,200+ communities: 300+ active projects across health, livelihood, education, agriculture & water; 1M+ beneficiaries via hub-and-spoke.
  • NABARD Award 2012 for Rural Innovations; parliamentary appreciation for landslide research; IPL World Centre of Excellence for 3 consecutive designations.

Scale-up Opportunity

Integrated Climate Change & Disaster Resilience Hubs

AI-Enabled Landslide Early Warning

Multi-Hazard Community Intelligence

Hyperlocal Weather Station Networks

Women-Led SHG Resilience Networks

OceanNet & Coastal Preparedness

Landslide Tracker & Crowd Intelligence

SREE AI Resilience Dashboards

AmritaKripa Flood Monitoring Networks

 GLOF & Cryosphere Monitoring

CCRRC Pre-positioned Resilience Centres

Panchayat Climate Action Planning

 Disaster Response & Recovery Support

Integrated Multi-Hazard Resilience Hubs

AI-IoT landslide & multi-hazard early warning

Hyperlocal weather stations per CCRRC hub

AmritaKripa flood monitoring & evacuation app

OceanNet & Tsunami Ready coastal preparedness

300,000+ SHG women in AmritaSREE network

Tribal & aspirational district deployment

SREE AI resilience dashboards (4,500+ households)

Hydroclimatic sensing & carbon flux monitoring

PMFBY crop insurance & MGNREGS integration

Panchayat-level village action plans

Aligned With Rural
Development Mandate

Disaster Risk Reduction · Hydroclimatic
Resilience · Community Preparedness

Climate Adaptation &
Resilience

AI early warning &
community preparedness

Disaster Risk
Reduction

19+ years, multihazard systems

Women & SHG
Empowerment

300,000+ SHG climate leaders

Digital Rural
Transformation

AI · IoT · GeoAI ·
crowd intelligence

Watershed &
Nature-Based

Cryosphere, flood
& ecosystem science

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