Doon DM, SSP deploy rescue teams
Dehradun: In view of the incessant rain being experienced in the district for the last three days, Dehradun district magistrate BVRC Purushottam and senior superintendent of police Kewal Khurana took the command of disaster control room and deployed the rescue and relief team members on the spot on receiving information from affected persons on Monday. Purushottam alerted the district officers to provide immediate relief to the affected persons by deploying relief and rescue team if reports related to loss of life and property damage are received in the control room. He directed the officers concerned to prepare reports on collapsed houses, security walls and other damage due to rain in the district and submit it to him soon. ADM (Finance) Jharna Kamthan and executive engineer of flood control were directed to conduct survey of properties damaged along Rispana river and submit it to him soon. As per information received from the different parts of the districts, 10 persons died in the last three days.
Power cuts come in way of lists’ release
Dehradun: The rains and power cuts across the State, Garhwal and Kumaon division and other districts failed to release first list of compulsory teachers transfer under the Uttarakhand Teacher Transfer Policy on Monday. School education (basic) director Anil Kumar Negi said that several districts informed that due to power cuts, they could not release first list of compulsory teachers transfer on said date. Dehradun released its first list of compulsory teachers transfer on Sunday.