Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 22: The Executive Committee of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) headed by Chief Secretary, M. I. Khanday today discussed the preliminary flood damage report received from both the Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir and matters pertaining to immediate relief to the victims of recent floods across both the divisions.
The State Executive Committee (SEC) also released an amount of Rs 8.40 crore on account of rehabilitation of affected families and clearing of liabilities of work done on account of damages caused to private property and public infrastructure due to flash floods, snow storms, wind storms, hail storm and other natural calamities during last few years.
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary directed for setting up of a Committee headed by Director General of Police (DGP) that will look into the aspects of purchase of specialized rescue equipment for various emergency centres for post disaster rescue and relief operations and capacity building for disaster management under the State Disaster Response Force. An amount of Rs 18 crore has been set aside for the purchase of the vital equipment and capacity building, the meeting was informed.
The Chief Secretary also directed for following standard operating procedure for advance authorization while taking up immediate relief measures in case of various natural calamities. He said that the verification, inspection and documentation of the work done on account of temporary restoration of public infrastructure should be carried out by the competent authority at District and Divisional levels and the damage assessment and funds requirement report should be submitted to the Executive Committee for timely release of funds under SDRF.
The meeting was attended by Director General of Police, Ashok Prasad, Financial Commissioner, Revenue Dr Arun Kumar, Principal Secretary, Home. Suresh Kumar, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, B BVyas, ADGP, Home Guard, Civil Defence and SDRF D R Doley, Director General, J&K Fire and Emergency Services, Adminis-trative Secre-taries, and other senior officers.
Follow our WhatsApp channel