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Kathmandu, June 18: A meeting of the Central Disaster
Rescue and Relief Committee today decided to step up the search and rescue
operation and provide the relief in an effective manner in different places of
the country affected by flood triggered by incessant rains.
The meeting also issued directives
to the subordinate bodies to carry out the search and rescue works and the task
of distributing relief to the affected people with high priority.
It also made arrangements to send additional
support from all the security agencies
including helicopters as per the needs of the districts that have called
for more support in the search, rescue and relief operations, the spokesperson
for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shankar Prasad Koirala, said.
The meeting chaired by Home Minister
Madhav Ghimire also decided to immediately release an amount of five million
rupees each from the Central Disaster Relief Fund to the district disaster
relief fund of Darchula and Kanchanpur districts, the two districts in the
farwest region most affected by massive flood in the Mahakali River.
Likewise, the meeting decided to
dispatch by helicopter necessary medicines, water treatment chemicals and other
relief materials provided by the Ministry of Health and Population, the
Ministry of Urban Development and the Nepal Red Cross Society, respectively, to
the headquarters of Darchula district today alone.
It is stated that the meeting has
made arrangements for immediately distributing the relief materials to the
affected families on the spot as per the approved criteria and also issued
instructions to adopt total alertness to prevent the likely spread of diseases
in such situations.
Similarly, the meeting directed the
Ministry of Irrigation to make necessary arrangements for activating the Nepal-India Joint
Mechanism in view of the No. 12 Spur of the Gandak Dam getting eroded fast by
the current of the Gandaki River.
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