Min visits flood-hit areas, assures all help to mitigate situation

Varanasi: The UP minister of state (independent charge) for tourism and religious affairs, Neelkanth Tiwari, met the people in flood-hit areas along river Varuna and assured them of all possible help by the government.
Tiwari along with NDRF personnel entered the flood affected areas including Konia, Saraiyya and Rajghat along river Varuna by boats and also reached the water-logged streets to meet the residents. Tiwari assured the people that relief operations had already been started by the local administration and all those people, who want to shift to safer places, will be sent to the relief camps. Boats will be made available to the people, who want to go the places of their preference.
The minister said arrangements for relief packages for flood hit people had also been done while chief medical officer had been asked to engage mobile teams of doctors with life saving and other necessary drugs to provide immediate assistance to the people in case of any emergency or health problems. He said BDRF personnel will continue to keep close vigil on the situation.