T.N. government sets up 215 relief camps, 106 community kitchens in Chennai

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Food being prepared by Greater Chennai Corporation workers astatine  a alleviation  campy  successful  Manali connected  Wednesday

Food being prepared by Greater Chennai Corporation workers astatine a alleviation campy successful Manali connected Wednesday | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam

The Tamil Nadu authorities has acceptable up 215 alleviation camps and 106 assemblage kitchens successful Chennai and deployed a full of 24,149 unit arsenic portion of Northeast monsoon alleviation and rescue operations.

According to a property release, pursuing the onset of the Northeast monsoon connected October 16, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has instructed each District Collectors to instrumentality information measures to guarantee that radical were not affected by the dense rain. He besides chaired a reappraisal gathering connected October 19 astatine the State Emergency Operations Centre successful Chennai and ordered officials to velocity up preparedness measures, safely evacuate radical surviving successful coastal and low-lying areas, and support alleviation camps acceptable with indispensable facilities specified arsenic food, drinking water, and aesculapian assistance.

A full of 215 alleviation camps and 106 assemblage kitchens had been established successful Chennai. Currently 68 assemblage kitchens person been made operational done which 1,46,950 radical affected by the rainfall were provided meal connected Wednesday, the property merchandise said.

The Integrated Command and Control Centre, which operates circular the clock, has been taking contiguous enactment connected complaints received from the nationalist done the helpline number, 1913.

A full of 22,000 unit from the Greater Chennai Corporation, including officers, engineers, and sanitation workers, on with 2,149 tract unit from the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, were deployed for alleviation and rescue work, the merchandise added.

Published - October 22, 2025 04:08 p.m. IST

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