In view of the monsoon season ahead, the Bageshwar district administration has asked the officials concerned of the district to take necessary steps to deal with any disaster like situation, directing them to keep the disaster control room at the district headquarter open round-the-clock from June 15.
More so, it has also directed the officials concerned of the district administration to set up flood control rooms at every tehsils and keep them open for 24 hours from the mid June.
Reviewing the progress for the disaster management in the district, B l Firmal, the ADM, Bageshwar, has called upon the officials concerned of the district to take all the steps before arrival of the monsoon to deal with any eventuality.
“All the preparations need to be completed on time to deal with incidents like landslides, heavy rainfall, cloudbursts during monsoon season ahead, he emphasised. Since incidents caused by natural disaster are unpredictable, therefore, better coordination among different agencies involved in disaster managed is need of the hour. More so, in case of any disaster like situation, the officials concerned need not to wait for any further order in this regard. Rather they rush to the incident site to handle the situation,” Firmal further said.
At the same time, the Bageshwar administration has also directed the officials concerned to identify such places which are sensitive and hypersensitive from disaster point of view and also asked the different agencies to identify the places along the bank of rivers which may be affected due to flood in rivers during monsoon season.
“As a precautionary measures, collect contact numbers of those people who live along the sensitive places along the bank of rivers so that in difficult times, they may be alerted, the district administration, Bageshwar further asked the officials concerned. Besides, contact numbers of all the officials concerned and public representatives must also be kept at the disaster control room so that they may be contacted in case of any emergency like situation,” the administration asked the officials concerned.
Stressing on the need to have proper flow of communication, the administration has also directed the district police department to arrange wireless sets in adequate numbers and to provide contact numbers of police personnel deployed in police stations or police posts particularly of those areas which are sensitive from disaster point of view. Besides, directing all other departments to be prepared for the disaster management, it has also directed the district health department to ensure proper arrangements of medicines and necessary health care facilities in all hospitals and health centres in view of the monsoon season ahead.