Tirunelveli district administration prepared to tackle heavy rain, says Appavu

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker M. Appavu said the Tirunelveli territory medication was prepared to tackle dense rainfall situation.

He told presspersons present connected Monday that Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, and Thoothukudi districts had been experiencing wide rainfall for the past 2 days. The territory medication had been taking measures to guarantee that cipher was affected by the floods. Several areas successful Tirunelveli territory were susceptible to harm during disasters, with 7 locations identified arsenic precise highly prone, 24 locations arsenic highly prone and 38 locations classified arsenic moderately prone.

As portion of the preparedness, 231 places, including colleges, assemblage payment centres, and matrimony halls person been kept acceptable to accommodate radical if needed, the Speaker said.

District Collector R. Sukumar said a 26-member State Disaster Response Force had reached Tirunelveli to assistance successful imaginable exigency situations. In addition, a 28-member National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was besides connected standby.

The Collector urged the nationalist to interaction the exigency helpline numbers, including toll- escaped fig 1077 and the telephone fig 0462-2501070. Information tin beryllium reported connected WhatsApp fig 9786566111.