POONCH: District Development Commissioner, Poonch, M H Malik chaired a meeting of concerned officers here today to discuss parameters for construction of safe multi-disaster utility shelters with allied facilities at vulnerable places in the district. The meeting held detailed deliberation on areas highly vulnerable to disasters like earthquakes, floods, landslides, border shelling, avalanches etc. were discussed in the meeting. It was informed that utility shelters with capacity of more than 1500 persons at a centrally located place near vulnerable villages will be constructed under the scheme. Besides, utility shelters in the vicinity of villages close to LoC and vulnerable to border shelling will also be constructed for effective rehabilitation of people affected by border shelling.
Keeping in view the vulnerability and requirements of multi-purpose/multi-utility shelters, teams comprising engineers from PWD, PDD and PHE besides other staff from Revenue and other concerned departments will conduct survey to identify the locations and estimate the financial involvement for construction of utility shelters. The DDC asked the engineers to take into account the size, design, soil condition and other disaster mitigation parameters while selecting the location. Senior Superintendent of Police, J S Johar, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mumtaz Ali Chowdhary, Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Shafiq Ahmed Choudhary besides other officers attended the meeting.