SRC asks officials of 6 coastal dists to ensure success
Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Bishnupada Sethi has issued instructions to all concerned officials to ensure success of the Early Warning Dissemination System (EWDS) being implemented in the six disasters-prone coastal districts and the State headquarters and to be operational with effect from October 29.
The deadline was set at a high-level meeting held recently. The EWDS is being implemented under the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project. The executants firm L&T has committed to complete the project in all respects by the scheduled date.
The SRC has asked the TCIL to conduct an Operational Acceptance Test (OAT) of the system and subsystems under the project at every site with immediate effect.
A team led by Deputy Relief Commissioner Pravat Ranjan Mohapatra has been constituted to monitor the progress of the work and facilitate smooth implementation of the project as well as the OAT within the scheduled dateline. The team would monitor the progress of work on a regular basis and take necessary steps to sort out the problems, if any. OSDMA (P&A), GM RK Biswal, the team leader, and OSD SK Das would be in charge of overall coordination including that with the L&T and the TCIL.
The Community Mobilisers of the OSDMA would also be involved in the work in their respective areas.
The OSDMA officials would remain in constant touch with the team leader and update him about the progress and other important information through phone/ Whatsapp/ SMS daily on a case-to-case basis.
The district administrations would see to it that completion of the balance work of the project and the OAT of the system and sub-systems within the schedule dateline of 29.10.2018 are not hindered. It shall be the responsibility of the concerned Block Development Officers (BDOs) to solve all problems arising within their blocks and facilitate the work.
The Additional District Magistrate would monitor the entire exercise.