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Communications Minister Sharma urges to adopt alertness to avoid human-induced disasters



DANG: Minister for Communications and Information Rekha Sharma has urged one and all adopt high alertness and caution to avoid the human-induced disaster like fire and forest fire.

She said this while expressing grief over the incident of fire in Rajpur rural municipality-7, Hadbas village of Dang.

The fire that broke out in Hadbas on Sunday had gutted 24 houses and 10 cow sheds.

Minister Sharma, who was elected to the House of Representatives from Dang constituency-2, expressed sorrow over the incident and called for all actors and stakeholders to join hands for relief and rescue of the homeless families at the grief-stricken moment.

Noting that the rising incidents of fire at the onset of summer season have caused huge loss of life and property of citizens as well as forests and biodiversity including crops, Minister Sharma urged all the concerned agencies to remain sensitive to contain life-threatening forest fire.

According to Minister Sharma, the government has already directed the concerned agencies to be seriously effortful to minimize the damage caused by the fire and control the fire at the earliest possible.

She shared that all the three levels of government, including security personnel, are working passionately to minimize the damage.

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