Srinagar 22 January (KNB): Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu held a meeting with all senior officers to review snow clearance arrangements in wake of fresh snowfall prediction from 22nd January evening by MeT.
A statement issued to Kashmir News Bureau said that besides SMC Commissioner Gazanfar Ali, Joint Commissioner works Ishtiyaq Ahmed Shah, Executives Engineers, AEE’s, Zonal sanitation officers and other concerned officers attended the meeting.
During the meeting it was informed that entire men and machinery are in a state of preparedness to tackle any eventuality. All the snow clearance machines along with man power are on a stand by mode.
“Around 4,000 officials will be pressed into service for manual clearance. The eighty snow clearance machines will be deputed and divided in all the electoral wards of SMC and made available for clearance of lanes, bylanes and important stretches leading to hospitals, religious places, ration depots and other vital institutions,” officials said.
Regarding dewatering, the Mayor was updated that the SMC drainage circle is operating 86 permanent dewatering stations with a total capacity of 1460 cusec. Besides 32 mobile dewatering pumps stands deployed in various vulnerable areas of the city to tackle water logging issues.
During the course of the meeting SMC Mayor passed on directions to ensure snow clearance from all the city lanes, worship places, hospitals, roads, important institutions etc, by putting men and machinery on job so that no resident faces any inconvenience due to snow accumulation.
During the meeting Mattu said, “Immediate priority is to ensure all roads leading to hospitals and religious places, including shrines and gurdwaras, are cleared for movement of people.”
Similarly, focus was also laid on timely and smooth snow clearance in wake of fresh snowfall forecast.
“It is significantly important that all concerned departments work in coordination and cordially to deliver the best and time bound services to the citizens of Srinagar, which will also help in timely snow clearance,” Mattu added.
He also took updates on the SMC snow control room and passed on directions to the concerned to keep it fully activated with a prompt response to the public calls.
Meanwhile, the helpline numbers i.e. 2470465, 2474499, toll free number 18001807038 are open for people to contact.
Besides these help line numbers, general public can also contact Nodal Officer Snow Clearance Operations (Central Enforcement Officer) on 7006018935, Enforcement officers on 9149678557, 9797290729, 9797222780 and Nodal Officer Snow Control room on 9419009570. (KNB)