India News | ASDMA to Set Up Safe Shelters for Landslide Prone in Assam

Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 23 (ANI): In view of the ensuing flood and rainy season in the State, Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) on Thursday directed all the landslide prone districts of the State to pre identify the safe shelters (relief camps) for the people vulnerable to landslide during flood season and also to relocate such vulnerable population to the safe shelters.

ASDMA issued necessary official instructions to the landslide-prone districts of the state, i.e., Cachar, Dima Hasao, Hailakandi, Kamrup, Kamrup Metro, Karbi Anglong, Sribhumi, and West Karbi Anglong districts, to pre-identify the landslide-prone areas of the concerned districts immediately and notify the safe shelters (relief camps) with wide publicity for the landslide-affected people in case any incident of landslide occurs.

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Through wide publicity, the affected people could find safe shelters and move to such shelters.

Considering the casualties that occurred in the last three years in the landslide-vulnerable districts, viz. Cachar, Dima Hasao, Kamrup Metro, and Sribhumi, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi, Chief Executive Officer, ASDMA, requested that all the people living in most landslide-prone vulnerable areas shift themselves to safer places of their choice for the rainy period to reduce their vulnerability to landslides. (ANI)

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