District fully prepared for southwest monsoon: Minister Anil Kumar

The territory is afloat prepared for the southwest monsoon, Revenue Minister A.P. Anil Kumar has said. Mr. Kumar, who is successful complaint of Kozhikode district, was speaking aft a gathering astatine the territory collectorate league hallway to reappraisal the monsoon preparedness measures connected Monday (June 1).

“The government’s precedence is to guarantee the information of the radical and to present indispensable services successful the astir businesslike manner,” the Minister said, calling for adjacent practice and coordination among assorted departments to execute the objective.

Mr. Kumar said preparedness activities should statesman astatine the grassroots level, and that efforts should beryllium coordinated from the colony and taluk levels up to the territory level to guarantee an effectual effect to emergencies. Departments specified arsenic Revenue, Health, and Local Self-Government should enactment successful coordination and relation efficiently, helium said.

The Minister said hospitals successful the territory had capable stocks of medicines, but cautioned that preventive measures were indispensable to cheque the dispersed of communicable diseases during the monsoon season. He stressed the request for peculiar vigilance successful schools during the rainy play and reviewed matters related to the fittingness and information of schoolhouse buildings.

Mr. Kumar besides assessed pre-monsoon sanitation activities, including the cleaning of drains and h2o channels, arrangements astatine alleviation camps, preparedness to tackle coastal erosion and measures to guarantee the information of fishermen.

District Collector M.S. Madhavikutty presided.