LARKANA, July 17: District Nazim Mohammad Bakhsh Arijo on Tue4day urged all the departments to submit a disaster management plan within a week to help the district government formulate a comprehensive strategy for coping with natural calamities in future.

He said at a meeting of district officials on the preparation of disaster management plan that the district could not avert natural disasters but could at least minimise losses by taking timely measures under a prepared plan.

He took serious notice of the absence of basic amenities in the newly established housing societies and asked the taluka municipal administrations to tighten its control over such societies.

If the builders deviated from the set rules and regulations and constructed houses without providing basic facilities including roads, drainage and sewerage system, plots reserved for mosque, schools and recreational them, and cancel their NoCs, he warned.

He instructed the representatives of health, SSGCL, PTCL and other departments to provide a list of their vital installations and security arrangements so that alternative security arrangements could be made during the time of natural calamities and disasters.