Tracking the 115 fishing boats that reportedly left the harbours in the district and went missing during Cyclone Ockhi has been listed as the prime agenda of the rescue mission. A host of agencies will come together to search for the missing vessels.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the District Collector here on Monday to take stock of the relief and rehabilitation measures in the aftermath of the cyclone.
Arrangements, including transportation, will be made to send back fishermen rescued by the Navy and undergoing treatment in the hospital as soon as they are discharged. Plan fund allocated to the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will be utilised for the treatment of the injured and their transportation.
The Suchitwa Mission has been asked to complete sanitation measures in three days in areas where septic tanks were damaged in the natural calamity. Nirmithi Kendra has been entrusted with repairing partially and fully damaged septic tanks at the earliest using assistance from the calamity relief fund.
All possible measures will be taken to prevent the outbreak of epidemics. Officials of the health and social welfare departments have been deployed to undertake chlorination in the affected areas.
Free ration
Taluk supply officers have been asked to submit the list of people to be given free ration while the Fisheries Department has been asked to submit an estimate of losses suffered by the fishing community.
Meanwhile, 1,730 people from 440 families continue to languish in six relief camps in Kochi taluk whereas another three camps continue to be operated though there are no inmates. The camp being run at St. Mary’s High School at Chellanam continue to have the most number of inmates as it houses 840 people from 200 families.
