Chief Secretary Sudhir Prasad while holding a high level review meeting on the repercussions of low productivity due to less rainfall in Garhwa and Palamu district directed the Disaster Management Department to form task forces at district and block level so that immediate action could be taken at the need of hour. The task force will also help in the coordination among the concerned departments, he said.
The Chief Secretary the representatives from Agriculture, Power, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Water Resources, Rural Development, Disaster Management, Cooperative, Revenue, Forest and Environment, Agriculture Snceince including public representatives should be included into the task force. Prasad also said that the places where transplantation could not take place, must be provided free of cost seeds immediately under alternate farming programme. The CS also directed to involve the public representatives in the distribution of seeds under alternate farming programme.