SUKKUR, Feb 15: A District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) was established in Sukkur on Friday following a decision taken at a meeting held a day ago at the office of deputy commissioner Bilal Ahmed Memon.

To provide timely rescue services and first aid to the people living in Sukkur district, the third biggest town of Sindh province, the participants in the meeting had felt the necessity of establishing DDMA. It had also been decided that the DDMA secretariat would be set up in Civil Defence Office in Sukkur.

Officials who had attended the meeting included additional deputy commissioner Qazi Mubeen Elahi, assistant commissioner Syed Muhammad Noman Masood and SP Mufakhir Adeel. Officials from education, health, and, works and services department had also been present.

Presiding over the meeting, deputy commissioner Bilal Ahmed Memon, also the DDMA chief, had issued directives to all provincial departments to prepare a detailed report about vehicles, employees, volunteers, buildings and information about the position of infrastructure within three days and submit it in another meeting scheduled for Feb 18.