ASDMA to set up safe shelters for landslide affected in the State 

Guwahati, Rongili Barta: In view of the ensuing flood and rainy season in the  State, Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) directed all  the landslide prone districts of the State to pre identify the safe shelters (relief  camps) for the people vulnerable to landslide during flood season and also to  relocate such vulnerable population to the safe shelters to reduce the possibility  of life loss due to any incident of landslide in the State.  

ASDMA, in view of this, issued necessary official instructions to the  landslide prone districts of the state i.e. Cachar, Dima Hasao, Hailakandi,  Kamrup, Kamrup Metro, Karbi Anglong, Sribhumi and West Karbi Anglong  districts to pre identify the landslide prone areas of the concerned districts  immediately and notify the safe shelters (relief camps) with wide publicity for the  landslide affected people, in case any incident of land slide occurs. Through wide  publicity, the affected people would be able to find the safe shelters and can move  to such safe shelters.  

Taking into consideration of the casualties occurred in last three years in  the landslide vulnerable districts, viz. Cachar, Dima Hasao, Kamrup Metro and  Sribhumi, Gyanendra Dev Tripathi, Chief Executive Officer, ASDMA requested  all the people living in most land slide prone vulnerable areas to shift themselves  to safer places of their choice for the rainy period to reduce their vulnerability to  landslides.