The government of Tamil Nadu has decided to appoint 15 IAS officers to oversee preparedness in Chennai zones in the wake of the northeast monsoon — which is expected to hit the state soon. The said officials shall ensure zone-wise readiness, coordination, identification of vulnerable areas, setup of relief camps, and availability of essential medicines.
To expedite monsoon monitoring and preparedness, monsoon monitoring officers have been appointed for all zones of the Greater Chennai Corporation to reach out the relief measures to the people during the North-East Monsoon and to oversee the progress of the work on stormwater drains.
The Stalin Government has also directed the officers to visit respective zones of Greater Chennai Corporation in coordination with the Commissioner GCC to foresee preparedness, planning, relief and mitigation of all the zones.
The said officers will be tasked with monitoring general preparedness and overseeing planning and coordination, identification of vulnerable areas, mapping and analysis, preparedness of institutional arrangements and pre-positioning of men and materials. Apart from this, the bureaucrats shall also look after the capacity building, mitigation measures, sanitization of other stakeholders, deployment and traffic plans, communication, relief arrangements and medical preparedness should also be looked into.
