Dehradun District Magistrate Ravinath Raman held a meeting with World Bank representatives and discussed the preparations the district administration has taken to mitigate the damage disaster causes. DM informed the WB representatives about district level training programmes being held for the purpose and also the works various departments are carrying on.
All the departments involved in disaster management are linked with disaster control for 24 hours to mitigate the effects of the disaster happening in any part of the district, he said. A toll free number 1077 has been launched too and one can inform about the same to the disaster control office, he informed the WB officials.
He thanked them for having rendered financial assistance to the government departments to strengthen their resources to mitigate the effects of the disaster.
He said though they did not have high level of preparation on pre-disaster following shortage of resources and technology coordination among the department officials is of high standard to take on any eventuality.
The office of Uttarakhand disaster management authority will soon be set up in the district, he told the WB officials. He further informed them about the landslides having occurred in the mountainous parts of the district during the monsoon and also about the problem of water logging that the people in the plain areas of the district face during the rainy season.
Following effective coordination among the officials of various departments, they had succeeded in having good response time to mitigate the disaster, DM told the visiting WB officials. Volunteers of civil defence are being given training about their roles to mitigate the disaster from time to time, he further told them while adding that the locals are also being informed about the same through officials working on the ground.
WB officials are learnt to have recounted their experiences over mitigation of disaster during the meeting.