4 more small dams allowed to raise shutters during night
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The variety of small dams within the State the place the shutters might be raised during the night for releasing water has been elevated from six to ten.
The change has been specified within the ‘Orange Book of Disaster Management 2 : Monsoon Preparedness and Response Guidelines’ which has been up to date by the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) forward of the 2021 southwest monsoon season.
The revision, authorised by the federal government and printed on Friday, record ten dams in 5 districts: Kakkayam dam in Kozhikode district; Poringalkuthu and Sholayar in Thrissur district; Kallar, Irattayar, Lower periyar and Kallarkutty, in Idukki district; Moozhiyar and Maniyar in Pathanamthitta; and the Aruvikkara dam in (*4*).
Dams in Thrissur and Kozhikode districts had been newly added to the record based mostly on the operational experiences in 2020, a KSDMA official stated.
Procedures for releasing water from the dams have been specified within the up to date Orange Book. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and the Irrigation Department which handle the dams ought to examine the water ranges twice a day to decide whether or not the shutters would have to be raised at night. The shutters must be raised solely with the approval of the District Collectors. Government companies, the authorities of the native our bodies alongside the rivers involved and the general public also needs to be adequately warned.
Guidelines pertaining to the administration of reduction camps have been up to date, given the present COVID-19 state of affairs within the State. The 2020 version had specified the necessity for 4 sorts of camps for accommodating the quarantined, the symptomatic, sections susceptible to COVID-19 and common camps.
The quantity has been pared down to two within the 2021 version; common reduction camps and buildings having rooms with hooked up bogs for accommodating the home-quarantined. Evacuated COVID-19 sufferers will likely be transferred to COVID first and second line remedy centres and COVID-19 hospitals.
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