The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has found loopholes in the relief and rehabilitation package offered to villagers affected by the Tarapur atomic power station but said that the government would soon rectify the problem. In the backdrop of the Japanese quake and the subsequent disaster, the authority also announced setting up a permanent base of the disaster response force battalion at Tarapur to handle any eventuality.
Speaking on the sidelines of a one-day workshop on ‘Strategies for A Disaster Resilient Maharashtra’ in the city, vice-chairman of the NDMA M Shashidhar Reddy said, “ We have learnt of complaints from villagers in the quality of then 638 houses provided as a part of rehabilitation and the government is working on rectifying it.”
Reddy declined to comment on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant and added that if there are any loopholes there, they too will be rectified.
He said that the NDMA had set up eight battalions of the national disaster response force (NDRF) and four more were in the process of being set up.
The NDRF has 310 different types of equipment that can be used in any disasters, chemical, biological, natural or man-made and that the authority was setting up a trained force to handle the equipment.
