Minister reviews monsoon preparedness in Nagapattinam

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Minister for Minorities Welfare A.M.Shajahan inspecting the instrumentality  kept acceptable   for exigency  responses during monsoon successful  Nagapattinam territory  connected  Tuesday.

Minister for Minorities Welfare A.M.Shajahan inspecting the instrumentality kept acceptable for exigency responses during monsoon successful Nagapattinam territory connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The territory medication has been geared up to conscionable immoderate exigencies during the monsoon season, Minister for Minorities Welfare A.M.Shajahan said present connected Tuesday.

Chairing a gathering with officials to reappraisal the monsoon preparedness successful the district, Mr.Shajahan said officers successful the fertile of sub-collectors person been designated arsenic nodal officers astatine the taluk level to transportation retired precautionary and rescue operations during the monsoon period.

Three inter-departmental teams, comprising officials of each authorities departments, person been constituted for each taluk for carrying retired hunt and rescue and organise and structure and attraction of radical who whitethorn beryllium affected during the monsoon season.

Sixty-eight places person been identified arsenic susceptible for floods successful the territory and six multi-purpose shelters, 12 cyclone shelters , 100 assemblage halls, 73 matrimony halls and implicit 160 acquisition institutions person been identified for accommodating affected radical during emergencies.

Twenty-nine aboriginal informing systems were functional successful the district, helium said.

The Minister said that indispensable men and machines person been kept acceptable to grip exigencies successful the district. About 90 members of the Tamil Nadu Disaster Response Force, 5,000 trained archetypal responders and astir 900 volunteers would beryllium successful a authorities of readiness, Mr.Shajahan said.

V.Selvaraj, MP, M.H.Jawahirullah and T.Latha, MLAs, K.J.Praveen Kumar, Collector, and different officials participated.

Published - June 09, 2026 06:33 p.m. IST

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