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Delhi Home Minister Ashish Sood connected Monday directed officials to modernise the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), fortify occurrence prevention systems and amended exigency effect crossed the Capital.
His directions, issued astatine a reappraisal gathering astatine the Secretariat, came astir a week aft Chief Minister Rekha Gupta called for a city-wide firefighting audit pursuing the May 10 blaze successful Vivek Vihar, wherever 9 persons, including a toddler, mislaid their lives.
Chairing a reappraisal gathering astatine the Delhi Secretariat, Mr. Sood said the authorities is prioritising the technological upgradation of the DFS to guarantee quicker and much effectual responses to occurrence incidents.
He asked divisional occurrence officers to coordinate with nonmigratory payment associations, marketplace associations, spiritual committees, park clubs and different social organisations to behaviour occurrence information consciousness drives successful their areas. The campaigns, helium said, should see mock drills and sessions connected preventive measures and the “dos and don’ts” during occurrence emergencies.
Mr. Sood said divisional officers would be directly responsible for preventing and controlling occurrence incidents successful their jurisdictions.
According to an authoritative statement, the gathering focused connected reducing the DFS effect time, modernising its interior connection network, processing a command-and-control strategy and providing precocious method grooming to occurrence unit successful enactment with evolving technologies.
Officials besides discussed occurrence prevention measures, exigency preparedness, gaps successful existing occurrence information mechanisms, procurement of modern firefighting instrumentality and vehicles, and the proposed ‘Fire Fighting Master Plan’. The section has been asked to hole a broad maestro program for the adjacent three, 15 and 25 years, keeping successful presumption Delhi’s increasing colonisation and rapid urbanisation.
