With weather experts predicting better monsoon this season, to deal with floods in Uttarakhand’s terai belt won’t be less challenging for officials concerned.
However, as plains of Uttarakhand being equally sensitive to the natural disasters, as the hill areas are, so the Udham Singh Nagar district administration has alerted the officials concerned to be prepared to deal with the flood-like situation in the terai region effectively.
Keeping in view the present monsoon situation this year, flood situation in plains of the hill State would be more challenging, said Brijesh Kumar Sant, District Magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar, asking the officials concerned to be prepared to deal with the floods effectively. He has also asked the official concerned associated with disaster management in the district to identify all the places which are sensitive from natural disaster point of view so that prompt relief measures could be taken to mitigate the hardships of the affected people.
At the same time, the Udham Singh Nagar district administration has also stressed on the need to set up control rooms at every tehshils to ensure proper exchange of natural disaster related information among the different agencies engaged in natural disaster management in the said district.
Besides, the officials concerned of the tehsil control room will pass all the natural disaster related and other information of greater public interest to the district natural disaster management control room on daily basis, added the officials concerned. At the same time, all the officials concerned have been asked to remain alert during this period, they added.
Dr. Anil Sharma, District Disaster Management Officer, Udham Singh Nagar , has informed that the telephone numbers of the district natural disaster management control room are 05944-250719 and 05944-250823.
The district natural disaster management control room will remain open round the clock to deal with the natural disaster like situation across the district, he added. Besides, a toll free number i.e. 1077 has also been set up at the district disaster management control room. Any person can give information in regard to the natural disasters over this number, Sharma further said.