Arunachal CM issues directions on disaster preparedness

To prevent infrastructure, public and private properties from any damage due to coming monsoon in the state, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has issued directions on disaster preparedness to all deputy commissioners, SPs and the department of disaster management.
The CM sought precautionary measures in advance so that monsoon related damages to infrastructure, public and private properties remained minimal and to ensure that there was no loss of lives, official sources said today.
Besides urging that the disaster management department to coordinate with all other departments and agencies, the directive spelt out that control rooms need to be activated.

It also asked the department to ensure maintenance of essential services including power lines, surface transport and telecommunication, proper stocking and placement of essential commodities, buffer stock, drinking water,medicines, search and rescue, evacuation and damage assessment teams apart from creating awareness among the common masses.
The CM has also appealed to its citizens to come forward to build a disaster resilient state by abiding by the building and construction norms.
He advised against building houses in the flood prone, low-lying and disaster prone areas and to avoid choking of approach roads so that in case of emergency rescue and relief operation teams can reach the disaster sites immediately.

The state being in the seismic zone V utmost care is to be taken so that fragile land is not disturbed by adhoc cutting of earth and by building seismically unsafe buildings, the CM added.