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| Azad reviews situation in snow-hit Jammu districts | | Asks administration to ensure quick response to possible emergency | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 7
At a high level meeting held here this evening to take stock of the situation arising out of heavy snowfall in Jammu division especially in Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar districts, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad directed the administration to ensure quick response to the possible emergency. He said top priority should be accorded to reopening of the blocked Batote-Kishtwar and Doda-Bhadarwah roads so that essential supplies could be dispatched to the affected areas in the event of need.
The Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Minister for Health and Medical Education, Mangat Ram Sharma, Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Muhammad Dilawar Mir, Minister for R&B, Jugal Kishore, Minister of State for Power, Babu Singh, Chief Secretary, B. R. Kundal, Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Madhav Lal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Anil Goswami, Principal Secretary, PHE, A. K. Angurana, administrative secretaries of PDD, Health, R&B and Divisional Commissioner, Jammu were present.
The Chief Minister issued instructions for deployment of senior engineers at Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar district headquarters to monitor the situation and ensure immediate restoration of essential supplies like power and water as well as for snow clearance on roads.
The Chief Minister asked the DGP to constantly obtain information from inaccessible areas through the massive police telecommunication network so that the administration could take quick measures to respond to situation. He also asked him to be in touch with the army for keeping helipads available in remote areas like Marwah, Dachhan, Warwan, Paddar, Gool, Gulab Garh and Dudu-Basantgarh in order to make sure prompt supply of medicines and other essentials should the situation demand. He called for warning people against avalanches to minimize possibilities of human loss on this account.
Mr. Azad said that teams of officers would visit the affected areas to take stock of the situation and meet the requirements of the affected population. He said medical teams with medicines would be dispatched to the areas in case of need. He asked the divisional administration to circulate through media telephone numbers on which affected people could contact for assistance in the event of emergency.
Meanwhile, the divisional administration has kept woolens and blankets ready in adequate quantity for rushing to the areas where these might be required.
The meeting shared the concern of the people hit by heavy snowfall and the resultant difficulties throughout the State.
The meeting was held barely an hour after the return of the Chief Minister from Srinagar where he chaired a similar stock taking meeting following the continued and heavy snowfall across the Valley. |
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