Justice M M Sundresh, before whom advocate A P Suryaprakasam made a mention of the matter and sought urgent hearing, agreed to hear it tomorrow.
The petitioner submitted he had made representations to authorities, requesting them to constitute micro level disaster management and relief-providing committees to coordinate with individual volunteers and NGOs in all flood-affected areas and claimed he had first-hand experience of being accosted by locals while distributing food to the needy.
As such there was no link between government authorities and flood victims, he said, adding that in spite of availability of sufficient relief material, volunteers were not able to distribute them to victims as they were clueless about where to give it and whom to give it to.
Unless a micro-level flood relief committee was formed in flood affected areas, relief workers may not be able to move freely to distribute material to people in their hour of crisis, he said.
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