Deputy Commissioner, Kishtwar Ashok Sharma today chaired a meeting of line departments and different stakeholders to finalize arrangements for the Diwali Festival.
ADDC Kishtwar Sham Lal ,ADC Kishtwar Kishori Lal Sharma,ASP Kishtwar Rajinder Singh, Joint Director Planning Mohd Iqbal,ACD Kishtwar Kishore Singh Katoch, besides concerned district officers and members of Sanatan Sharma Sabha remained present in the meeting.
The arrangements of security, maintenance of law and order, traffic regulation, drinking water and power supply, sanitation, Medicare, checking of rates and quality of eatables besides deployment of fire tenders were discussed and finalized in the meeting.
Joint teams of officials of FCS & CA,and Food Safety Department were asked to intensify market checking to keep a check on overpricing, profiteering, black-marketing besides ensuring the quality of sweets, Milk and milk-based products and other eatables.
He also reviewed the position of the ration in the district and asked the AD Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs to meet the deficit, wherever required.
It was also decided in the meeting that the health department will keep one Ambulance at District Hospital for any emergency. Besides, fire and emergency services officers were directed to keep the fire tenders on alert round the clock.
The meeting decided to intensify checking to contain the sale of imported firecrackers in the district.
ASP Kishtwar , Tehsildar Kishtwar, EO MC kishtwar was asked to ensure the sale of the firecrackers only in the designated places of Chowgan ground.
The police department was asked to ensure safety and security enforcement of the SOPs and guidelines for prevention against Covid-19 in the public and religious places.