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SACHET National Disaster Alert Portal

Common Alerting Protocol alerts for India from IMD, CWC and state authorities, as national and state RSS feeds from NDMA's SACHET.

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About

SACHET is the National Disaster Alert Portal of India's National Disaster Management Authority, developed and maintained by C-DOT as part of the country's Common Alerting Protocol project. It publishes an All India RSS feed and one feed per state or union territory at sachet.ndma.gov.in/cap_public_website/rss. Each item links to a CAP 1.2 alert fetched by identifier, with sender, sent, status, msgType, event, urgency, severity, certainty, effective, expires, headline, instruction, an areaDesc, an LGD District Code and a polygon URL. Senders include IMD regional centres, the Central Water Commission and state disaster management authorities, and the feed's copyright element reads public domain.

Through Fibric, an operator matches alerts to your districts and sites in India and proposes holds, notices or shift changes for a person to approve.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from SACHET National Disaster Alert Portal and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • rss_india.xml: the All India CAP Disaster Alert Feed, with title, category, link, author, guid and pubDate per item
  • State feeds such as rss_kerala.xml, rss_gujarat.xml and rss_maharashtra.xml under /cap_public_website/rss/
  • FetchXMLFile?identifier=: the CAP 1.2 alert with sender, sent, status, msgType, scope and references
  • info block: category, event, urgency, severity, certainty, effective, onset, expires, headline, instruction and language
  • area block: areaDesc, an LGD District Code geocode, and a Polygon URL parameter pointing to FetchPolygonXMLFile
  • Alert authors in the feed: IMD regional centres, CWC and state SDMAs, with items in English and regional languages

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Hold deliveries into a district under a severe alert

    Match order districts to areaDesc and LGD District Code on alerts with severity Severe or above, and propose a hold on affected shipments for a person to confirm.

    With Weather Hold

  • Send a lightning notice to field crews

    When an IMD Thunderstorm with Lightning alert covers a site's district, draft a notice with headline, onset and expires for the site lead to send.

    With Severe Weather Notice

  • Pause outdoor shifts in a warned district

    When an alert with urgency Immediate covers a depot's district, propose a shift-change notice for the people scheduled outdoors, for a manager to approve.

    With Schedule Notice

  • Add flood alerts to the morning brief

    Each morning, list CWC and state SDMA alerts still in effect for your districts, with event, severity and expires, for a manager to review.

    With Morning Brief

Requirements

  • Your districts mapped to LGD District Codes, or polygons from FetchPolygonXMLFile, to match alerts to sites
  • ETag caching on FetchXMLFile: store the XML and ETag, resend If-None-Match, and reuse the cache on 304
  • Handling for item titles in regional languages such as Telugu and Malayalam alongside English
  • A parser for CAP 1.2 in the urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:cap:1.2 namespace
Authentication
No key. The RSS and CAP endpoints answer public GET requests; NDMA's integration guide requires consumers to send If-None-Match with the last ETag and honour 304 Not Modified.

Limits

  • The RSS item carries only the headline as title; event, severity and area require a second request per alert
  • Responses are served with Cache-Control no-cache, no-store; the guide's ETag flow is the only change detection offered
  • Polygons come from a separate FetchPolygonXMLFile response, not from inside the CAP area block

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

How should I poll the CAP endpoint?
Follow NDMA's CAP XML Feed Integration Guide. Store the XML and the ETag from the first 200 response, send If-None-Match on every later request, and use the cached XML on 304 Not Modified. Replace both when a 200 returns a new ETag.
Who issues the alerts?
Alert-generating agencies and the disaster management authorities of all 36 states and union territories. The All India feed shows authors such as IMD regional centres, CWC and state SDMAs; the CAP sender field names the issuing authority, for example West-Bengal-SDMA.
What are the terms of use?
The RSS channel's copyright element reads public domain. The portal is implemented by NDMA and developed and maintained by C-DOT; the integration guide asks consumers to use ETag caching to limit load on the alerting system.
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