Tauktae-hit states told to restore essential services

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, May 20

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba today directed the officials of the Cyclone Tauktae-affected states and union territory to restore telecom, power, roads, water supply and other infrastructures at the earliest with the help of Central agencies.

In an official release, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said Gauba, while chairing the meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), reviewed the relief and rehabilitation efforts undertaken in the aftermath of the extremely severe cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea.

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“During the meeting, issues related to the efforts carried out by the Navy and coast guard along with other agencies to rescue persons on three barges and one offshore drilling vessel of the ONGC were also discussed,” it said.

“Chief Secretaries of the states and advisors to the administrators of the union territories apprised the NCMC of the damage to infrastructure, crops as well as loss of life in the affected areas and the measures taken by them to restore telecom, power, roads, water supply and other utilities,” the MHA said in the release.