MHA asks states to ramp up health infra during monsoon

Union home secretary AK Bhalla on Friday asked all state governments to secure their health facilities and oxygen generation plants against any potential damage from rain and flooding during the monsoon season. Bhalla was speaking at a virtual conference of relief commissioners and secretaries of all states.

The conference was convened primarily to review the status of preparedness for dealing with natural disasters that may arise during the southwest monsoon.

The home secretary stressed on the need for building up capacities and response reflexes to ensure 24×7 preparedness throughout the year.


The monsoon is likely to arrive over Kerala on May 31, as per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Bhalla also released version 4.0 of the National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM), developed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), for realtime alerts and warning from forecasting agencies and dissemination of this to disaster management authorities up to district level for disaster risk reduction.