Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 9: In order to gear up the District Administration and machinery to deal winter challenges particularly with regard to current weather advisory, a meeting of all District/Sectoral Officers was held under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner(DC) Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad today.
The DC took a detailed review of overall winter preparedness in the district including power and water supply position, availability of ration, fuel, LPG and other essentials, besides arrangements put in place for timely snow clearance across the District.
At the outset, the Deputy Commissioner stressed on taking preventive and precautionary measures well in advance so that routine functioning at all essential installations, besides trade, transport, essential supplies and other routine works are not affected.
He also stressed the officers on readying men and machinery to ensure timely redressal of weather vagaries and subsequent interruptions of supply of water, electricity and road closure due to snowfall during the winter months.
While reviewing the status of the power supply scenario in the district, the DC asked the Engineers of KPDCL to take all required measures in order to ensure that power supply is restored at earliest during snowfall particularly at essential installations in the District. He asked the Officers to keep men and machinery ready for the restoration of the power supply in case of disruption due to snowfall.