Taap turns a city's plan into something that runs every hour: heat stress the way bodies feel it, Hindi work–rest alerts for outdoor workers, tasks for named officers, and a public record of what actually happened.
Plans exist. Implementation can't be seen.
Indian cities and districts with an operational Heat Action Plan.
NDMA, 2025plans reviewed had done a vulnerability assessment; most use city-wide temperature thresholds without humidity.
Centre for Policy Research, 2023potential labour hours lost to heat in India in 2024, about 420 per person.
Lancet Countdown 2025recorded at Mungeshpur and Narela, Delhi, on 28 May 2024.
IMD press release, 29 May 2024official ward-level heat warnings anywhere in India; IMD and SACHET warn by district at best.
Research review, 2026deaths estimated avoided after Ahmedabad's plan. When a plan runs, it works.
Hess et al., 2018 (estimate)Each gets the view they need.
Design choices grounded in what plans get wrong.
Hourly WBGT, the occupational heat-stress standard, not just the day's maximum temperature.
“30 min work, 30 min rest, 12–4 PM”, from ACGIH work–rest limits.
Every action has an owner, a Done button and a public timestamp.
CAP 1.2 alerts, the format SACHET ingests. Any city's plan is a config file.