A district-wide field survey will be held soon to find out the loss in the floods and to provide rehabilitation.
Specially trained squads will be posted for the survey on the basis of the area of local body wards. The squads will comprise village officers, village assistants, panchayat secretaries, clerks, assistant engineers and oversears.
The services of IT volunteers will also be made use of, said an official statement here on Tuesday. The squad will be assigned 10 houses in hilly regions and 20 houses in the plains a day. The squads will collect complete details of the houses by using a special mobile application. The evaluation of the squads will be further scrutinised at taluk level.
District administration figures show that 46,233 houses were damaged in the floods in Malappuram district. They were spread across 761 wards. When 559 wards were in 94 panchayats, 202 wards were in 12 municipalities.
While 10,813 houses were affected in municipal areas, 35,420 houses were affected in panchayats.
As many as 43,698 houses and 36,599 wells were cleaned up. Members of various organisations volunteered in the mass clean-up operations.
The Haritha Karma Sena of the Suchitwa Mission and the Health Department too joined in the cleanup drive.
8 relief camps
Eight more relief camps continued to function in the district on Tuesday. As many as 1,172 people of 333 families were in the camps in Nilambur, Eranad and Ponnani taluks. When Nilambur taluk had five camps, Eranad had two and Ponnani one.
The Naipunya Karma Sena repaired the electrical and plumbing issues of 756 flood affected houses in the district. Sixty-five teachers and 367 trainees from 21 Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in the district joined hands to form the Naipunya Karma Sena under the banner of the Haritha Kerala Mission and the Industrial Training Department.
A 200-member team of Thiruvananthapuram District Panchayat arrived to clean up the flood-affected houses in Pothukal panchayat.
Meanwhile, two more bodies were recovered from Kavalappara on Tuesday. The State Fire and Rescue Services personnel continued their search for more people trapped under the soil. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the State police, and several voluntary organisations were helping the firemen.
