Virudhunagar Collector N.O. Sukhaputra has instructed officials to place the areas prone to flooding and support acceptable with alleviation centres for providing harmless accommodation for radical who would beryllium affected during South West monsoon.
He was chairing a gathering of officials from assorted departments connected taking precautionary measures up of the South West monsoon present connected Tuesday.
The Collector said that instrumentality and bid should beryllium maintained during the times of earthy calamities successful bid to supply information to the members of public.
Efforts should beryllium taken to swiftly wide postulation jams created by uprooting of trees.
The Collector besides asked the officials to behaviour mock drills to make consciousness among the public.
All the Block Development Officers should inspect insignificant irrigation tanks and region the chaotic maturation that obstruct escaped travel of floodwater.
Similarly, encroachments successful insignificant irrigation tanks, ‘ooranies’, ponds, and unfastened wells should beryllium removed. The officials should besides be to cracks and breaches successful the waterbodies to forestall flooding successful residential areas.
The officials should support capable banal of sandbags and gunny bags to transportation retired repair works.
Similarly, the Water Resources Department should support acceptable with interaction numbers of operators of world movers and different dense vehicles.
All required machineries and dense vehicles should beryllium kept acceptable for contiguous restoration of roads that get breached by flood.
Similarly, the officials should support capable stocks of indispensable goods similar rice, pulses, kerosene, gunny bags and different nutrient grains.
Adequate spot of workforce should beryllium kept ready.
The Collector said that the ration shops should person each goods adequately stocked. Similarly, availability of kerosene and cooking state cylinders should beryllium ensured.
Preventive and life-saving medicines and drugs to power infectious diseases should beryllium made disposable successful each the hospitals.
Medical teams should beryllium kept acceptable successful each areas. Ambulances and generators should beryllium kept successful moving condition.
TNEB officials person been instructed to guarantee due attraction of overhead electrical cables and transformers.
Sufficient numbers of vehicles should beryllium kept acceptable to run them to the alleviation centres from the marooned areas.
District Revenue Officer R. Ananthi, Sivakasi Sub-Collector Mohammed Irfan, Project Officer (District Rural Development Agency) V. Kesavadasan, were among those who were contiguous astatine the reappraisal meeting.

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