Erode Collector directs officials to gear up for northeast monsoon

District Collector S. Kandasamy has instructed each departments to instrumentality precautionary measures up of the northeast monsoon successful Erode.

Chairing a reappraisal gathering astatine the Collectorate connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025), helium directed officials to signifier aboriginal informing teams, hunt and rescue squads, and alleviation campy absorption committees with officers appointed to show works. Water bodies, canals, and drains indispensable beryllium desilted, and authorities and backstage hospitals should hole catastrophe information plans. Relief camps indispensable person toilets, generators, wheelchair facilities, and abstracted rooms for the elderly, differently-abled, large women, and children, helium said.

The Rural Development Department was asked to place flood-prone areas and put sandbags and pumps, portion the Highways Department indispensable velocity up span desilting and divert stagnant rainwater. The Fire and Rescue Services Department volition cheque instrumentality and behaviour drills astatine nationalist offices, schools, and markets to rise awareness.

The Transport Department volition compile details of buses and lorries and support drivers acceptable for exigency duty. The Electricity Board volition deploy 24x7 teams to grip powerfulness proviso issues. The Health Department volition banal medicines, signifier peculiar teams, behaviour wellness camps, and guarantee sanitation successful affected areas.

The Co-operation and Food Safety Department volition support capable stocks of indispensable commodities successful harmless godowns. The School Education Department volition guarantee students’ information if schools are utilized arsenic alleviation shelters. The Animal Husbandry and Agriculture Departments volition banal fodder, seeds, and fertilizers, portion the Slum Clearance Board volition region discarded from lodging colonies.

District Revenue Officer S. Shantha Kumar, Gobichettipalayam Sub-Collector S. Sivanandham, Assistant Collector (Trainee) Kanchan Choudhary, and elder officials participated successful the meeting.