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- Lieutenant Governor calls upon National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to assist PWD in restoring UT's roads along with National Highways
- Lieutenant Governor Directs the officials to take every possible measure to ensure that people staying in low-lying flood affected areas are safely evacuated and ensure maintenance of all essential services such as power, healthcare, clean drinking water, ration and tele-connectivity
- Essential services disrupted in flood affected areas must be restored on priority and natural-disaster hit areas should have adequate stock of essential supplies and medicines: LG Sinha
- Lieutenant Governor lauded the efforts of Army, Airforce, NDRF, CAPFs, District Administration, Police and SDRF for minimizing the loss of precious lives by acting swiftly in evacuation of people to safe locations
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha chaired a high level meeting today to review the rescue and relief operations and preparedness of Union Territory's and concerned central agencies, Army, Air Force, NDRF, CAPFs to deal with the situation arising out of incessant rain and flash floods. The Lieutenant Governor directed officials to take every possible measure to ensure that people staying in low-lying flood affected areas are safely evacuated.
He asked the officials to ensure maintenance of all essential services such as power, healthcare, clean drinking water, ration and tele-connectivity. He said the essential services disrupted in flood affected areas must be restored on priority and natural-disaster hit areas should have adequate stock of essential supplies and medicines. The Lieutenant Governor also directed for immediate restoration of roads, bridges on National Highways, alternate routes for traffic movement and preparedness of hospitals in case of influx of patients with water-borne diseases.
The Lieutenant Governor directed PDD to closely work with NHPC Limited and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) for early restoration of Power Infrastructure. He called upon the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to assist PWD in restoring UT's roads along with National Highways.
The Lieutenant Governor directed the Additional Chief Secretary Jal Shakti to ensure alternative arrangements for providing clean drinking water in the water logged and flood affected areas, especially in remote and hilly habitations, while restoring the regular water supply infrastructure.
He also directed the Secretary Health, Public Work Department (R&B), Food and Civil supplies and Power Development Department to remain in Jammu Division and reach out to the flood affected areas. He said no officer or employee will take leave or leave the station. The Lieutenant Governor directed officials that non-essential government offices, schools and colleges must be closed till further notice and every district to ensure 24x7 functioning of control rooms to help individuals and households affected by the flooding.
The Lieutenant Governor said emergency responders must be pre-positioned in vulnerable areas and other teams should be adequately equipped and ready to be deployed within hours in case of an emergency. The Lieutenant Governor is reviewing the situation 24x7 and is in touch with the UT and central agencies officials concerned. He lauded the efforts of Army, Airforce, NDRF, CAPFs, District Administration, Police and SDRF for minimizing the loss of precious lives by acting swiftly in evacuation of people to safe locations.
Shri Atal Dulloo, Chief Secretary; Lt Gen Pratik Sharma, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Northern Command; Shri Santosh Yadav, Chairman NHAI; Shri Nalin Prabhat, DGP; Lt Gen. Prashant Srivastava, GoC 15 Corps; Shri Shaleen Kabra, Additional Chief Secretary, Jal Shakti; Dr Mandeep K. Bhandari, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor; Shri Vivek Kumar, Divisional Railway Manager, Jammu; Shri Devansh Yadav, Commissioner JMC; Maj Gen. Mukesh Banwala , GoC 26 Inf Division; Shri Ramesh Kumar, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu; Shri Anshul Garg, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir; Administrative Secretaries of all Departments, senior officials of Army, CAPFs, Airforce, NHAI, BRO, NDRF, SDRF, UT head of telecom service providers and DCs attended the meeting.
