Patna, (Bihar Times): The chief minister, Nitish Kumar, inaugurated the Mobile Inspection System, at the flood preparation review meeting here on Tuesday. The MIS will help monitor floods in Bihar, especially in its northern half, in a better way.
In this hi-tech monitoring mobile phones would be used to get information of any breach in the embankments. Photographs of the affected site will be taken to assess the quantum of damage. "The mobile inspection system allows users to send status reports and images instantly to headquarters using an encrypted channel over GPRS" explained Anupam Singh whose company has developed this programme.
Speaking on the occasion the chief minister asked the officials of the water resources department to make micro-level planning so that advanced information about the floods is available and the people of the affected areas could be evacuated on time. He called for the strengthening of the embankments and implementation of anti-erosion schemes much in advance.
Water resources minister Vijendra Yadav said that embankments at 32 places got breached in the last year’s flood and that they are being repaired. He said that repair works and strengthening of embankment would be completed by June 15.
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