Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath on Monday inaugurated an
integrated
Emergency
Control
Centre at
Shastri Bhawan here
to provide expeditious relief
to people, ranging from information about anti-COVID hospitals and quarantine centres
to the food
to the poor and hungry.
Speaking on the occasion, Adityanath said the
control room will play an important role
in running an anti-corona campaign
in the state without any discrimination and would help authorities provide essential services and the state's welfare scheme benefits
to needy persons.
He also said
in
emergency, the
control room will act as a backbone for relief works, a statement issued by the
UP government said.
Instructions have been issued
to all district magistrates
to set
up similar
control rooms and appoint nodal officers
to man them their respective districts
in 24 hours, the statement said.
The
integrated
emergency
control
centre will soon be linked
to important telephone service numbers like 112, 1076, 1090, 108 and 102, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue)
Renuka Kumar said.
She added that toll-free number 1070 has been installed
in the
integrated
emergency
control
centre for receiving calls from the public.