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A high-level meeting was held on Monday by Chief Secretary Anurag Verma to take stock of the current situation in the flood-affected areas in Punjab and to know about the ongoing relief and rehabilitation works. The Administrative Secretaries of the concerned departments attended the meeting and the Deputy Commissioners of all the districts participated through video conferencing.
Anurag Verma said that following the directives of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to normalize the situation in the flood affected areas and provide all kinds of relief to the affected people, instructions have been given to the Deputy Commissioners to get the lives of the affected people back on track. It should be ensured to pay the compensation amount to the heirs of the people killed due to floods by July 20 every year and the compensation of the damaged houses should also be handed over to the victims by July 24.
The Chief Secretary further said that Rs 10 crore has been released from the disaster fund by the Chief Minister to provide clean drinking water to the people. The drinking water should be protected from contamination and in this regard the concerned authorities should give a certificate within two days that there is no defect in the water pipeline anywhere and the drinking water is completely clean.
The negligent in this case will not be spared. People’s health is paramount. 50 lakhs have been released to the health department for chlorine medicines. The health department asked to make full preparations to combat water-borne diseases. Similarly, 40 lakh rupees have been released to the districts by the animal husbandry department to protect the livestock from diseases.
Anurag Verma said that instructions have been given to the Water Resources Department that wherever there are gaps in the rivers, canals, they should be repaired on a war footing. The water resources, public works, marketing board, water supply and sanitation departments along with the deputy commissioners should assess the damage to infrastructure caused by floods and submit a report.
He said that in this regard clear instructions have been issued by the Chief Minister that during the restoration of the structure, it should be ensured that there is no damage in case of high water in the future, and the damage caused by floods should be avoided.
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