HT Correspondent
JORHAT, Nov 13: The Jorhat district commissioner, Jay Shivani, has constituted a 15-member inter-departmental task force to conduct a fire safety audit in all commercial establishments, businesses, shops, shopping malls, markets, market complexes, hospitals, nursing homes, cinema halls, multiplexes, godowns, and residential buildings.
The order issued on November 13 appointed Kritartha Neog, branch officer, District Disaster Management Authority, Jorhat, as the chairman of the task force.
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The order stated that the task force will submit its findings, with proposals for short- and long-term mitigation and corrective measures to minimise fire hazards in Jorhat town and its peripheral areas, to the DC, who is the chairman of DDMA, Jorhat, by December 20 this year.
The move comes in the wake of a devastating fire near Bhogdoi Masjid on AT Road on the night of November 1, in which one person lost his life and several shops were gutted.
This incident was the fourth major fire in Jorhat town in recent years.
