File PhotoĪuditor’s report says indiscriminate discharge of water from Chembarambakkam lake burdened the Adyar riverThe Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has been scathing in its criticism of the government’s handling of the Chennai floods of 2015, going so far as to categorise it as a “man- made disaster”. Murky business: Floods resulting from the indiscriminate discharge by the WRD. You may please go through this thread for more information. Proceedings of the meeting also include rescue and relief measures, covering desilting the water bodies to ensure free flow water in the canals, arranging for rescue and life measures like alerting the volunteers who are trained in First aid and Rescue operation, stocking the necessary medicines as a precautionary measure, transport facilities like boats, etc and alerting the general public who are living at low lying areas giving them advance notice with sufficient time for shifting process. To my knowledge, it was a convention that the Government used to convene a regular meeting before ‘on set’ of the North east monsoon attended by Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, DGP., Director of Fire Service, Commissioner of Corporation, etc and this is to discuss about the preparedness to meet the challenges to face the flood situation.

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