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Kanniyakumari District Collector R. Alagumeena chaired a gathering present connected Wednesday to reappraisal the authorities departments’ preparedness successful facing the ensuing northeast monsoon.
Addressing the meeting, Ms. Alagumeena said the tahsildars should nonstop the Village Administrative Officers to personally cheque the railway tracks nether their jurisdiction during and aft dense downpour and consequent floods. They should pass instantly the elder officials astir retention level successful the waterbodies adjacent to the railway tracks and perpetually show the rising h2o level.
After inspecting the bunds of waterbodies up of the commencement of monsoon, the VAOs should taxable a study instantly truthful that timely enactment could beryllium taken to fortify the anemic embankments too cautioning the radical surviving nearby.
Temporary alleviation field should person each basal amenities similar aesculapian aid, drinking water, powerfulness connection, food, fuel, toilet etc.
“Instead of waiting for instructions from the higher-ups, the officials should instrumentality the close and contiguous determination to rescue the affected colonisation from the marooned areas and displacement them to the adjacent alleviation camps,” the Collector said.
The constabulary and gross section should signifier tiny teams with their members for carrying retired alleviation and rescue operations successful coordinated fashion. The occurrence and rescue services department, aft keeping each its men and worldly acceptable to look immoderate eventuality, should behaviour drills up of the monsoon successful susceptible areas identified by the territory medication based connected erstwhile experiences.
The Collector directed the Nagercoil Corporation medication to support acceptable the alleviation and rescue materials, dense equipment, vehicles etc. and guarantee the proviso of chlorinated drinking water. The assemblage kitchens should beryllium kept acceptable for preparing nutrient for immoderate fig of relocated population.
The nationalist works, highways and agrarian improvement section officials were told to cheque the bridges, culverts, irrigation channels, arterial roads, school, anganwadi and infirmary buildings earlier the commencement of the monsoon.
“Encroachments, if immoderate successful the waterbodies and canals, should beryllium removed immediately. The matrimony halls successful assorted parts of the district, particularly successful the susceptible areas, should beryllium identified for creating alleviation camps,” Ms. Alagumeena said.
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation officials were told to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness proviso and instrumentality all-out steps for restoring powerfulness proviso successful the affected areas astatine the earliest by stocking capable fig of equipment, powerfulness cables and electrical poles.
Ms. Alagumeena made it wide that the students coming to the schools from habitations beyond Petchiparai Dam should beryllium admitted successful the hostels for the 3 months – October to December – to guarantee their information and uninterrupted education.
District Revenue Officer J. Balasubramanian, Sub-Collector, Padmanabhapuram Vinay Kumar, Assistant Collector (Training) Rahul Kumar and elder officials of assorted authorities departments participated successful the meeting.’
