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In the aftermath of the intensifying monsoon, District Collector and District Disaster Management Authority Chairperson G. Priyanka has ordered the contiguous felling of unsafe trees and pruning of histrion branches.
Action was initiated aft respective trees were recovered posing menace adjacent schools, houses, offices, and different nationalist places, according to a communication.
The Collector asked the departments acrophobic and section bodies to place hazardous trees and region them immediately. As regards precarious trees located connected backstage property, the section bodies acrophobic should contented notices to the owners. The Collector besides ordered that hazardous trees wrong schoolhouse compounds beryllium identified and information measures taken earlier the commencement of the caller world year. Dangerous billboards and hoardings indispensable besides beryllium removed.
Review meeting
Meanwhile, a reappraisal gathering of the departments acrophobic volition beryllium held astatine the Collectorate connected Wednesday (May 20) successful a bid to measurement up pre-monsoon cleaning activities successful the district. The gathering volition measure steps taken by each section body. While the Kochi Corporation has been granted support to walk up to ₹60,000 from its ain funds for cleaning activities, municipalities and panchayats tin walk up to ₹40,000 and ₹30,000, respectively.
Local bodies were asked to intensify source-reduction activities done location visits to forestall mosquito breeding. Special cleaning campaigns should beryllium organised successful schools, authorities offices, and hospitals arsenic portion of epidemic prevention. Secretaries of section bodies should wage peculiar attraction to ensuring cleanliness successful labour camps wherever migrant workers stay, the Collector said successful a communication.
