Officials told to be monsoon ready

Nagapattinam: With the onset of the northeast monsoon, a review meeting to take stock of the rain preparedness was conducted at the collector office in Nagapattinam.

The district monitoring officer and secretary of micro, small and medium enterprises department, V Arun Roy, instructed the officials that the entire infrastructure earmarked for establishing camps at the time of a disaster should be carefully checked and verified that those buildings have the required facilities such as drinking water, enough space and electrical power connections.

At the meeting headed by V Arun Roy in the presence of district collector Dr A Arun Thamburaj, revenue officials were instructed to be prepared to face the monsoon.

District-level and union-level coordination committees comprising officials from all the government departments should be formed and they were asked to have a close watch on the vulnerable areas, which were already identified to move the people to safe places, V Arun Roy said.

Multi-purpose shelters, cyclone protection shelters and marriage halls should be kept ready to accommodate people without any delay. First level officials should do the needful to shift the people without any delay.

Embedding arrangements for the rescue and protection of livestock should also be kept ready. Arrangements have been made with a toll-free number 1077 at the 24-hour control room established at the collector office, V Arun Roy said.


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