Meghalaya forms Disaster Management Committee

Shillong (PTI): Deputy Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today informed the assembly that the state government had formed Disaster Management Committee at the state level, district and village as natural calamity was a common phenomenon in Meghalaya.

The Disaster Management Committee would assist the officials of the state government in times of natural calamites like cyclones and floods, he said.

Mr. Sangma said the state government had taken various steps to help the victims of natural calamity with financial assistance, as per the guidelines of the Central Government.

He admitted that the problem caused by natural calamity was more acute in West Garo Hills and its plain belt.