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The Delhi Disaster Management Authority has submitted the heat action plan to the Centre last month regarding the preparedness, information-sharing, and response coordination to reduce the health impacts of extreme heat on vulnerable populations
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), which prepared the plan and submitted it to the Centre last month, also plans a pilot project to paint roofs in identified areas with white colour to help keep the indoors cooler.
Delhi will alter school timings, suspend non-essential water use, provide uninterrupted power supply to health facilities and survey vulnerable locations daily to mitigate the impact of extreme heat on susceptible populations in peak summers, according to the city's first heat action plan. The
“These are suggestive measures on what different agencies may follow to mitigate the impact of heatwaves. Last year, we saw a hot summer, and it was stated that Delhi didn’t have a heat action plan. The DDMA worked on it, and consulted stakeholders,” the official said.
A septuagenarian man was killed, and two others were injured in a series of three separate robberies and snatchings by three men in south Delhi early on Monday, a police official said.Police have apprehended all three suspects involved in the ...