{"id":313997,"date":"2019-07-14T03:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313997"},"modified":"2019-07-14T03:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:13:23","slug":"union-home-minister-amit-shah-chairs-a-high-level-meeting-to-review-the-current-flood-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-home-minister-amit-shah-chairs-a-high-level-meeting-to-review-the-current-flood-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs a high-level meeting to review the current flood situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313998 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"961\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1.jpg 961w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1-696x368.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/amit-shah-1-795x420.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting to review the current flood situation in different parts of the country and the preparedness of the States and Central Ministries \/ Agencies concerned to deal with the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHad a meeting with MoS Shri @nityanandraibjp, senior MHA officials and concerned departments on the issue of developing flood situation in various parts of the country. Directed all related officials to ensure proper relief, rescue and rehabilitation measures,\u201d Amit Shah said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India Metrological Department (IMD) informed that during the last 3-4 days, Assam and Bihar have got excess rainfall with extremely heavy downpour. Heavy rainfall is expected in these two states during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 DG, NDRF apprised that 73 NDRF teams have been pre-positioned in vulnerable areas of flood-affected states along with all necessary equipments. These teams are in addition to the teams kept on alert at battalion head quarter and Regional Response Centers (RRC). NDRF teams have also rescued about 750 persons in Assam and Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Central Water Commission (CWC) informed that\u00a0in Assam\u00a0Brahmaputra, Beki, Jiabharali, Katakhal and Barak and\u00a0in Bihar\u00a0Kamla, Bagmati, Mahananda, Gandak rivers are flowing in severe situation. Both CWC and IMD are issuing forecast bulletins at regular intervals. Control Rooms in MHA, NDRF, IMD and CWC are keeping close watch on the situation on 24*7 basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After review, Shah directed the senior officers to take every possible measure to deal with the situation arising out of South-West Monsoon in the country and to extend all necessary assistance to the flood affected states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that the Shah had directed all concerned officials to remain on high alert and provide the states with the assistance they required. He also said that Union Home Minister had emphasized that lives and property must be protected.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting to review the current flood situation in different parts of the country and the preparedness of the States and Central Ministries \/ Agencies concerned to deal with the situation. \u201cHad a meeting with MoS Shri @nityanandraibjp, senior MHA officials and concerned departments on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313999,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313997\/revisions\/313999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}