Meeting held for examination and recommendation of schemes under SDRF

BONGAIGAON: A district-level meeting for examination and recommendation of the proposals prepared by the line departments under SDRF, 2020- 21 after the floods in the district, was held here in the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner's office on Friday.

The meeting, which was chaired by Gautam Talukdar, Deputy Commissioner and chairman, District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Chirang, was attended by Chandan Brahma, Minister for Welfare of Plains Tribe and Backward Classes and Tourism.

Addressing the meeting, Chandan Brahma pointed out the vulnerable areas where flood and erosion had been witnessed every year in the district. He asked the officers of the line departments to prepare plan and estimates based on the importance of vulnerability assessment conducted by them for permanent solution to the flood and erosion problems.

Deputy Commissioner Gautam Talukdar urged the officers present to prepare the list of schemes on priority basis and submit it immediately to his office for onward submission to the government by September 30, 2020 at his recommendation as chairman of the DDMA, Chirang. Talukdar also apprised that so far PWD had submitted 124, Water Resources 62, Irrigation 6, Education 4 and Soil Conservation had submitted 12 draft lists of schemes under SDRF from their side. All these schemes were thoroughly examined for recommendation in the presence of minister Chandan Brahma in the meeting. The meeting was also attended by Sudhakar Singh, Superintendent of Police, Additional Deputy Commissioners Biswajit Goswami, Karmadev Brahma and other officials of the district administration.

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