With the unprecedented rains hitting normal life in the Union Territory of Puducherry during the last 20 days, the chief minister said that "what went wrong regarding the management of the drainage as also the other infrastructure" should be studied by the officials.
He was talking to newsmen today after finalising a Rs 150 crore relief package for farmers, hut dwellers and others.
The disruption caused by the rains should be an eye-opener for all the government departments so that they may work to ensure that any such crisis in the future does not lead to the same woes that people and the farmers have had to suffer during the North East Monsoon this year.
He said he has asked the PWD, local administration and other departments to properly review the situation and take steps for reclaiming and freeing of encroachments the broad storm-water canals that were built during the previous regime.
Chief Secretary Manoj Parida, Relief Commissioner V Candavelou and officials of Agriculture and Local Administration departments were also present for the meeting.