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Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan, connected Friday, said the medication has identified 92 areas with imaginable flood hazard and 88 areas with imaginable landslide risk, and due caution is being taken up of the onset of the southwest monsoon.
He was responding to the district-in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao’s absorption to instrumentality suitable precautionary measures successful areas prone to flooding, waterlogging and landslides aft identifying them successful beforehand earlier the onset of the monsoon astatine a reappraisal gathering here.
Mr. Darshan said silt accumulated successful large stormwater drains (rajakaluves) is being removed utilizing earthmovers and claimed that a bulk of the drains were cleared of the silt by now.
Speaking earlier, the Minister asked officials acrophobic to marque predominant visits to areas prone to flooding, waterlogging and landslides and instrumentality contiguous enactment aft assessing the situation. The enactment of desilting stormwater drains should beryllium expedited. In this regard, departments acrophobic should enactment successful coordination with each other, Mr. Rao said.
Noting that desilting enactment was successful progress, the DC said 8 locations wherever oversea erosion was apt to hap were identified, and steps were taken to alleviate the risk. He said power rooms were opened astatine the territory and taluk levels to run round-the-clock for exigency catastrophe management.
While a squad of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) was already contiguous successful the district, NDRF teams were expected to get by the month-end, Mr. Darshan said.
Zilla panchayat Chief Executive Officer Narwade Vinayak Karbari, Superintendent of Police K. Arun, Deputy Commissioner of Police K. Ravi Shankar and others were present.
