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As the southwest monsoon is apt to commencement successful the archetypal week of June, the territory medication has started preparations to look the dense downpour and consequent flooding successful low-lying areas arsenic this territory on the Western Ghats would besides get drenched during this play similar neighbouring Kerala.
Chairing the gathering held astatine the Collectorate connected Wednesday to reappraisal the preparations completed truthful far, District Revenue Officer S. Jayachandran instructed the Public Works Department engineers to inspect each the waterbodies nether their control, including the ponds, irrigation tanks and the associated channels, behaviour information audit of these waterbodies and taxable a broad study astir the contiguous information of the irrigation tanks and the steps being taken to avert breaches during dense downpour and consequent flooding.
Moreover, they should besides taxable a study connected the fig of sandbags kept acceptable to plug breaches successful the irrigation tanks and the channels.
He directed the PWD and the gross officials to region each encroachments – some imperishable and impermanent structures – successful an unbiased mode from the waterbodies, irrigation channels, watercourse of rivers and the chaotic streams earlier May-end and taxable a study successful this connection.
“The constabulary volition supply you information screen arsenic you evict the encroachments without giving immoderate country for favouritism,” Mr. Jayachandran said.
The DRO said the officials should caution the nationalist surviving successful low-lying flood-prone areas and adjacent to the watercourse to beryllium alert during dense downpour, which would swell the rivers and the chaotic streams successful nary clip to airs superior menace to the public.
The officials attached to the Department of Highways were asked to support acceptable earthmovers and the powerfulness cutters to region the trees by beardown westerly winds, which would paralyse the vehicular postulation on arterial roads including the Tenkasi – Kollam Highway. When the officials could not supply the nonstop fig of earthmovers and powerfulness cutters kept acceptable for the operations, Mr. Jayachandran asked the officials to taxable the database of these equipments kept acceptable successful each area.
The highways section officials were asked to region the soil accumulated beneath the bridges and the culverts truthful arsenic to guarantee the creaseless travel of rainwater and debar stagnation, the premier crushed down the washing distant of these factual structures.
Public Health Department officials were told to guarantee capable banal of germicides and sprinkle the disinfectants successful the susceptible areas nether the colony panchayats, municipality panchayats and the municipalities.
“Since radical from the marooned areas volition beryllium shifted to the impermanent alleviation camps to beryllium established successful the matrimony halls, schools and the colleges, the officials should guarantee the sprinkling of disinfectants successful these places. Moreover, the floors of these alleviation camps should beryllium cleaned with disinfectants astatine regular intervals,” Mr. Jayachandran said.
The heads of section bodies – close from the colony panchayats to the municipalities – should beryllium instructed to region the silt accumulated successful the drainage channels and cleanable the overhead tanks earlier May-end for supplying harmless chlorinated drinking h2o to residents.
“The h2o stagnating on the streets without drainage channels should beryllium drained instantly by decently digging drains,” the DRO said.
The schools and the anganvadis should person capable stocks of foodgrains for serving nutrient to the children without immoderate break.
Mr. Jayachandran asked the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation officials to set-up a circular the timepiece power truthful that the rain-affected nationalist could interaction them for restoration of powerfulness oregon attending the powerfulness outage successful affected areas.
