The government has asked the authorities concerned to perform their responsibilities with utmost sincerity and devotion in carrying out relief and rescue operations as well as managing shelter centres in flood-hit districts, reports BSS.
Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus came up with the instruction at a coordination meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Tuesday, a PMO press release said.
The meeting reviewed the country’s ongoing flood situation, relief and rehabilitation programmes, shelter centres management, rescue operations, assessment of loss and damage caused by flood in agriculture, fisheries and livestock sectors and the overall flood management.
As per the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dr Ahmad Kaikaus asked the officials concerned to take steps to ensure transportation and communication, check riverbank erosion, and ensure health services, transportation of goods, relief distribution and food security in the flood-affected areas.
He said the prime minister has already instructed to assess the loss caused in the agriculture, fisheries and livestock sectors due to flooding and provide incentives to these sectors.
The principal secretary urged the officials concerned to implement the instructions of the premier within shortest possible time.
In addition to this, he directed the authorities concerned to make overall preparation if the flood situation worsens during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holidays.
Chaired by Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, the meeting was attended, among others, by the senior secretaries of the Water Resources Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry, and the secretaries of the PMO, Fisheries and Livestock Ministry, the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry and the Food Ministry.