Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed all the ministers to rush immediately to the flood affected 25 districts and camp there to monitor the relief and rescue operations.
The directions were given by the CM during the cabinet meeting here on Tuesday.
later briefing media persons here state power minister and government spokesperson Srikant Sharma said that the CM has directed all the ministers in-charge of the district along with others to camp in the flood affected districts and even spend night in these places.
“The CM is very concerned about the flood situation in these districts and have asked the ministers to strictly monitor the relief operations,” he said.
Besides , Sharma said that the health minister has been specially asked to monitor the availability of medicines in these districts while the irrigation department has been directed to prevent any breach of the embankments of the rivers due to floods.
“The CM also asked the authorities in these flood prone districts to go for special cleanness drive so that no epidemic get spread after the flood water recedes,” the minister said.