Establish 24X7 Joint Winter Control Room in every district: Div Com

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today directed all Deputy Commissioners and concerned departments to establish round-the-clock Joint Winter Control Room in every district of Kashmir division.
The Divisional Commissioner gave these directions while reviewing winter preparedness in all districts of the Division.
The meeting was informed that Nodal Officers from Mechanical Engineering Department (MED), R&B, PMGSY, BEACON, SDRF, PHE, PDD, I&FC, Municipal Committees, Health Services, FCS&CA and other concerned departments will be deployed in these control rooms to provide quick and real time services to the people during erratic weather conditions across the valley.
It was informed that Mechanical Engineering Department has kept 154 snow clearance machines besides R&B, BEACON and RAMKY had stationed adequate number of machines across the Kashmir Division.
The Divisional Commissioner directed concerned Engineers to prepare duty roaster and asked them to keep all machines in the state of readiness to meet any eventuality.
Khan asked concerned DCs to deploy disaster management teams at National Highway, far flung and avalanche prone areas before October 25. He directed that blankets, ration, medical kits and other emergency material be kept ready in disaster management centres and organize mock drills in consultation with the concerned Deputy Commissioners. In case of closure of National Highway, concerned officers will ensure to identify holding areas along National Highway where trucks and passenger vehicles would be stationed there, he added.
Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Baramulla and Ganderbal will ensure that road connectivity to tourist destinations of Pahalgam, Gulmarg and Sonamarg shall not get snapped during snowfall, the meeting was told.
Deputy Commissioner Budgam Tariq Hussain Ganai, Chief Engineer PHE, Director FCS&CA, Commissioner SMC, Principal GMC, Conservator Forests, Additional Commissioner Kashmir Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Deputy Director FCS&CA, Assistant Commissioner (Central) Noor-ul-Hamid and other concerned officers were present in the meeting where as other Deputy Commissioners participated the meeting via video conferencing.

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