Taking note of previous year’s statistics regarding water-logging woe faced by the people residing in the low- lying areas of the city, Dehradun district magistrate has directed the municipal corporation and irrigation department officers to identity such areas and take necessary steps accordingly in their jurisdictional limits. Notably, a part of such areas notorious for water-logging is lying under the jurisdictional limit of the civic body while the rest in the rural areas is under the jurisdictional limit of the irrigation department.
Irrigation department officers were directed to make an arrangement to measure the water level in the rivers after the onset of monsoon and to inform the SDMs concerned as well as the people residing on their banks immediately in case the water level in the rivers increases. DM asked the administrative officers to shift them at safer place through lekhpal or patwari.
DM directed the chief city commissioner, Municipal Corporation Ravneet Singh Cheema to take initiative of cleaning nallahs flowing in the city. He stressed on drainage system in the city being improved so as to ensure that water logging does not recur. Besides, he asked the officers concerned to sprinkle medicines in the vulnerable areas through the fogging machines during the rainy season. The health department officers were directed to take preventive measures regarding the seasonal diseases erupting during the rainy season.
The power department officials were directed to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the areas that are under threat of facing disasters. The food and civil supply officers were directed to ensure that sufficient quantity of food grains, kerosene and petrol/ diesel is stocked in the remotest areas of the district. The telecommunication officers were directed to fix the snags immediately so that communication does not become a problem in case a disaster is reported from any part of the district. This aside, the public works department and forest department officers were directed to identify alternative routes in the disaster- prone areas so that traffic is not blocked following landslides.