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District Collector Anand Mohan monitored the catastrophe absorption drill and chaired a gathering astatine the Colletorate connected Friday to reappraisal the preparations made crossed the territory up of southwest monsoon arsenic the apt downpour on the Western Ghats whitethorn trigger copious influx of h2o into the Papanasam and Manimuthar dams to origin flooding successful the Tamirabharani.
Addressing the meeting, Mr. Anand Mohan said the Tamirabharani and the Chittar Basins mightiness witnesser immense travel of h2o owed to the overflowing Papanasam and Manimuthar dams successful Tirunelveli territory and Gadana and Ramanadhi dams successful Tenkasi district. Since the flooding successful these 2 basins could trigger deluge successful the associated irrigation channels and imaginable breaches successful channels could pb to the marooning of low-lying residential areas, the officials should perpetually ore connected the influx of h2o into the dams and the quantum of discharge from the reservoirs, spot the bunds of irrigation channels, irrigation tanks etc. to debar imaginable breaching.
The Collector directed the Public Works Department to show circular the timepiece the influx of h2o into the dams and the discharge of h2o from the reservoirs and stock this accusation with the District Collector, District Revenue Officer, District Fire Officer and different gross officials.
The wood section officials were asked to perpetually show the downpour successful the Western Ghats and consequent travel of h2o successful the swollen chaotic streams and stock this accusation with the gross officials for taking capable precautionary steps.
While the Department of Rural Development should inspect each irrigation tanks nether its absorption and carry-out indispensable strengthening, the municipality panchayats, municipalities and the Corporation should desilt the tempest h2o drains to avert h2o stagnation. Vulnerable areas should beryllium identified successful beforehand for putting successful spot each precautionary measures.
Temporary alleviation shelters should beryllium created successful harmless buildings which should beryllium kept acceptable with each facilities and the database of shelters with each applicable accusation submitted to the District Collector wrong a week. The alleviation centres should beryllium acceptable with drinking water, bully fig of toilets, doctors, nurses with capable quantity of medicine.
Swimmers, snake catchers and different volunteers to beryllium progressive successful rescue operations on with the trained constabulary and occurrence work unit should beryllium refreshed with 1 much circular of refresher programme. Their mobile telephone numbers should beryllium shared with the officials concerned. The tahsildars should instrumentality steps for expanding the fig of these trained volunteers by identifying the steadfast and persons volunteering for this work.
The Fire and Rescue Services unit should support acceptable their inflatable boats, electrical cutters and different rescue cognition materials portion the officials of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation were told to banal powerfulness cutters, electrical poles, cables etc. too overhauling the sub-stations and the transformers for ensuring uninterrupted powerfulness proviso oregon aboriginal restoration of powerfulness to the affected areas.
The Public Health Department officials were told to banal capable quantity of medicines and Department of Highways was directed to cheque the bridges and culverts connected arterial roads and region the clogs, if any, underneath.
“The officials should guarantee amended coordination during the alleviation and rescue operations truthful arsenic to assuage the adverse sitaution,” Mr. Anand Mohan said.
District Revenue Officer M. Durai, Sub-Collector, Cheranmahadevi, Ayush Gupta, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency Vinay Kumar Meena, District Forest Officer Ilango, and others participated successful the meeting.
Earlier, the Collector monitored the catastrophe absorption drills and inspected the instrumentality utilized for rescue operations displayed by the Fire and Rescue Services personnel.
