As someone can take advantage of the calamity situation to carry out cartelization and black market, the Home Minister instructed to strictly monitor the situation.
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Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar has discussed with local level heads/chairmen and chief district officers of Terai-Madhesh along with Madhesh Province which has been declared a disaster prone area.
On Saturday In the coordination meeting held 'virtually' by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, the minister informed that Madhesh Province has been declared a disaster prone area on the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs as the government is serious about the suffering of the citizens .
The minister gave instructions to the chief district officials for coordinating and facilitating the identification of places with water supply and irrigation problems as well as the places where deep tubewells and deep borings will be installed on a priority basis.
The minister said that the distribution of water from tankers should be continued in places where there is no source of water or that is dry, and for this he also instructed to use tankers from the private sector along with the security agencies. The minister said, "If there are water sources in government offices, schools, hospitals, and non-governmental organization offices, they should also be used for drinking water."
The minister also instructed the security agencies to strictly monitor as someone can take advantage of the disaster situation to carry out cartelization and black market. Chairman of the
meeting and executive head of the authority. Dinesh Prasad Bhatt informed that the authority has already requested the UN agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations and the Red Cross to modify their programs as needed and focus on Madhesh. In the
meeting, local level mayors and presidents and chief district officers of drought-affected districts including Madhesh province informed about the initiatives being taken to solve the problem along with the situation of their local level and district.
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Government of Nepal has declared a disaster-prone area for three months on the 8th of June. Earlier, the Madhesh province government had declared the Madhesh province as a drought-affected area on June 26, after the water sources and springs were dry and there was a problem in the irrigation works.
