The Wayanad district administration is gearing up to prepare a scientific land-use plan at the grama-panchayat level to ensure safer construction work in the hill district.
The decision was taken in the wake of the recent landslips and mud slips in the ecologically fragile areas of the district.
Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, District Collector V. Kesavendrakumar said that the recent calamities in the district, including a series of landslips in ecologically sensitive areas and the collapse of a panchayat shopping complex building at Vythiri, showed the significance of executing a scientific land-use plan in the district.
An expert committee would be constituted for the purpose soon, Mr. Kesavendrakumar said.
Ecological zones
The district administration would recommend to update and upgrade red and orange ecological zones of the district to control the functioning of granite quarries in the district, he said .
As the flood-related calamities had made an impact on the development sector in the district, a huge amount of money and manpower were needed to restore the district to its former state, he said.
In relief camps
As many as 9,322 people of 2,613 families, including those who had lost houses, whose houses were damaged and those from landslip-prone areas, were still continuing in 57 relief camps in the district.
The flooded and partially damaged houses were being repaired with the assistance of voluntary organisations.
A sum of ₹10,000 would be provided to each family for repairs and ₹10 lakh would be given to those who had lost their houses in the calamities.
According to the data available with the Revenue Department, 381 houses were destroyed and 1,492 were damaged in the district. The compensation announced by the government would be made available in a time-bound manner. The agriculture sector in the district suffered a loss of ₹36 crore. The loss to roads and bridges was yet to be ascertained, he said .
A sum of ₹40 lakh had been received at the Collectorate from the public to the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund, he said.
