Jalandhar, August 22, 2019: In a step aimed at providing immediate relief to the people stranded due to floods in various villages of Shahkot Sub-Division, the deputy commissioner Mr Varinder Kumar Sharma today ordered constitution of special mobile teams on boats to move house to house in flood-hit villages from Friday morning for providing food and health facilities for people besides fodder for their cattle.
Presiding over a meeting with heads of various departments in Lohian, the deputy commissioner said that two boats including officials of food and civil supply, health, animal husbandry on one boat and medicines, ration, fodder on the second boat with the help of SDRF and NDRF would cover the flood-hit villages.
He said that each team would visit house to house in these villages on boats and would rescue willing person as people are reluctant to leave their houses.
The deputy commissioner directed the heads to fix the duties of the officials who will be part of the mobile teams and clearly said that there must not be any kind of laxity otherwise strict action would be taken.
Mr Sharma reiterated that the state government led by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was committed for bailing out the people in this hour of crisis.
He said that the administration would leave no stone unturned to help the people affected by floods.
On the occasion, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development) Mr Kulwant Singh, Sub-Divisional Magistrate-II Mr Paramvir Singh, Civil Surgeon Dr Gurinder Kaur Chawla, Superintendent of Police Mr RPS Sandhu, District Epidemiologist Dr Satish Kumar and others were present.