A proper drainage and cross-drainage system would be made mandatory along all the roads in the State for which a high-level committee and monitoring teams would soon be constituted which will look into the issue, stated Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while presiding over a high level meeting here late Thursday evening.
The Chief Minister said that the main cause of water seepage and cracks appearing in the roads causing huge damage to them lacks of proper drainage and cross drainage systems. “Henceforth, the new road constructions which sans proper drainage systems will not be approved or passed”, he said, adding, that this could only be ensured by quality work at the time of construction.
The Chief Minister took a detailed report of the damages caused due to heavy rains and gave necessary directions to the officers. The Chief Minister asked the Public Works Department to deploy adequate machinery and other equipments to restore the roads damaged by landslides and emphasized for additional men and machinery to open the major blocked roads in district Mandi. He said that scientific management would be ensured to prevent soil erosion and landslides on the river banks in Kullu district.
The National Highways Authority of India and the Public Works Department have been asked to take long term measures in this regard. To cope up with the calamities as the State witnessed recently, the State Government has decided to provide two cranes each to all the companies of State Disaster Management Authorities (SDRF) in the State, to mitigate disasters and to be used in rescue operations, said Sh. Sukhu.
Drones would also be made available to all District Disaster Management Authorities (DDMA) for mapping and monitoring besides providing goods and medicines to the people at the time of the disaster, he added. Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister, Anirudh Singh, OSD to the Chief Minister, Gopal Sharma, Chief Secretary, Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secretaries, Onkar Chand Sharma, Bharat Khera and Devesh Kumar, Secretaries of various departments and other senior officers attended the meeting.
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