Efforts on to provide relief to cyclone affected families: CM

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 26, 2022

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said complete efforts are being made to ensure all support is given to the families in the Sitrang Cyclone affected districts in the state.

Speaking to reporters, Sangma said he had reviewed the situation during a meeting attended by all deputy commissioners of the 12 districts.  

“…the departments specially the revenue and disaster management department has completely gone into full swing work and complete efforts are being made to ensure that all support to the affected families are being given and all deputy commissioners are working overtime to ensure as much relief as possible can be given to the people who are affected,” he said.

“Another large area which has been affected is the power supply in different parts of the state. The MeECL has worked overtime and most of the lines have been restored and those which have not been restored we are hopeful that within the next 24 hours we should be able to restore most of the lines,” he added.

Stating that more or less things are coming back to normalcy, Sangma said, “As I said all efforts are made to ensure all support that is possible will be given to all the affected families in different parts of the state.”