To avoid last year’s chaos, disaster cell lines up SMS weapon

To avoid last year’s chaos, disaster cell lines up SMS weapon

Last year’s bad monsoon experience has made officials take extra precautions to avoid any repeats this year.

For starters, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is installing an SMS blaster at the disaster management cell that started functioning at the civic body premises last Wednesday.

This is to ensure efficient delivery of alerts to citizens and the civic staff to ensure faster response to any untoward incident during monsoon.

The civic body on Wednesday started the disaster management cell in the civic headquarters.

The cell would run during the whole of monsoon. “The cell will be operational 24 hours during monsoon and coordinate rescue and relief operations,” said Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Pravin Ashtikar.

He said the disaster management cell is as per the plan prepared by the civic body in association with the All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG).

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