UNIFIED CONTROL AND COLLECTION AND DISPATCH CENTRE FOR FLOOD RELIEF SET UP IN LOHIAN
DC EXHORTS PEOPLE TO NOT TO ORGANIZE LANGARS ON THE ROADS AS ADMINISTRATION FACES PROBLEMS IN PLUGGING WORK
India News Centre,Jalandhar- The district administration has established a Unified control and Collection and dispatch centre in Lohian to collect and dispatch the relief material for the marooned Lohian block. The centre has been set up in a marriage palace in Lohian which is working 24-hours.
Divulging the details, the deputy commissioner Mr Varinder Kumar Sharma said that with the heavy rush of generous people who have organized Langar and been distributing relief material in unorganized manner, there is huge traffic problem in town due to which the administration has been facing a lot of difficulties in carrying out the material for the plugging operations.
He appealed the people to hand over the relief material in this unified control and
Collection and dispatch centre so that these can be provided to the flood-hit people through 21 dedicated boats (each boat allocated to one village).
The deputy commissioner said that SDM-2 Mr Paramvir Singh has been appointed as in-charge of the centre
Mr Sharma said that in the boats, the officials from food and civil supply, health, animal husbandry, medicines, ration, fodder with the help of SDRF and NDRF was covering the flood-hit villages.
He said that each team was visiting house to house in these villages on boats to extend a helping hand to people and rescue willing person who are ready to leave their houses.