Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: The Civil Secretariat today resumed its activity after the recent floods with Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey along with Administrative Secretaries and other senior officers taking stock of the damages caused to the records and other infrastructure.
The Chief Secretary reviewed the situation at a meeting of Administrative Secretaries and representatives of the employees unions.
Mr Khandey directed using more pumps to dewater the premises and starting the clean-up operation accordingly. He also directed Estates Department to make necessary arrangements of accommodation for those darbar move employees whose dwellings came under floods.
As flood waters have not fully receded from the entire premises, the meeting decided to start the functioning of line departments from Old Secretariat premises from tomorrow till the clean-up process is over.