Home Minister consults people's representatives, CDOs of disaster-hit zone

Kathmandu, July 26: Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak held discussions with mayors and chairpersons of the local levels and the Chief District Officers from the disaster-hit districts.     

In a virtual meeting organised by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) on Saturday, Home Minister Lekhak stated that Madhes Province was declared the disaster-hit area at the proposal of the Home Ministry and directed the chief district officers for the coordination and facilitation in the tasks of identifying the areas hit by drinking water and irrigation shortage as well as the places to install deep tube-well and deep boring.     

Sharing that distribution of water from tankers should be continued at the places where there are no water sources or the places where water sources had dried up, Minister Lekhak instructed while asking the bodies concerned to use tankers from the private sector and the security bodies too for water distribution.     

 "It is necessary to strictly monitor involvement of wrongdoers' in cartel and black marketing by taking advantages of the crisis," the Home Minister directed to pay attention on it.     

Similarly, Executive Chief of the Authority, Dinesh Prasad Bhatta, shared that the Authority has already requested the UN agencies, NGOs and INGOs and Red Cross Society to shift their programmes in Madhes.     

Likewise, Mayors, Chairperson and Chief District Officers from the crisis-hit districts briefed about the situation in the respective areas while sharing the ongoing efforts initiated to resolve the problems.     

The cabinet meeting on July 24 had declared Madhes Province as the disaster-hit zone for three months. Earlier, Madhes Province Government had on July 10 declared Madhes Province as drought-hit zone after water sources dried up resulting the problem of drinking water and irrigation facility.(RSS)