{"id":53579,"date":"2019-07-14T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=53579"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:47:36","slug":"punjab-cm-visits-pdma-office-suggests-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cm-visits-pdma-office-suggests-improvements.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM visits PDMA office; suggests improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar visited the head office of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to inspect their operations, and made suggestions to improve various functions of the PDMA and bodies associated with it on Thursday, according to a news source.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pdma-shares-public-safety-tips-for-monsoon-season.html\">PDMA shares public-safety tips for monsoon season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He directed employees at the office to improve the early warning system for natural disasters to make it more effective. The CM felt the authority had room to improve the ways in which they deal with the threat of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>He instructed the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) to speed up the process of water drainage and to use all resources at their disposal for water removal. The traffic police was told to keep vehicular traffic flowing without interruptions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-buzdar-briefed-monsoon-flood-arrangements.html\">CM Buzdar briefed on monsoon flood arrangements<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PDMA\u2019s scope is to gradually be expanded to district level. In the meeting he presided over, Buzdar guaranteed the authority that the required resources for this shift will be provided in a timely manner. Additionally, a proposal to introduce groundwater recharging systems in urban areas was discussed, and drain-water harvesting technology was reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar visited the head office of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to inspect their operations, and made suggestions to improve various functions of the PDMA and bodies associated with it on Thursday, according to a news source. Read:&nbsp;PDMA shares public-safety tips for monsoon season He directed employees at the office to improve the early warning system for natural disasters to make it more effective. The CM felt the authority had room to improve the ways in which they deal with the threat of natural disasters. He instructed the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) to speed up the process of water drainage and to use all resources at their disposal for water removal. The traffic police was told to keep vehicular traffic flowing without interruptions. Read: CM Buzdar briefed on monsoon flood arrangements The PDMA\u2019s scope is to gradually be expanded to district level. In the meeting he presided over, Buzdar guaranteed the authority that the required resources for this shift will be provided in a timely manner. Additionally, a proposal to introduce groundwater recharging systems in urban areas was discussed, and drain-water harvesting technology was reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":52950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7870,15156,12250,3237,15155,251],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-pdma","8":"tag-punjab-cm","9":"tag-punjab-cm-visits-pdma-office-and-suggests-improvements","10":"tag-punjab-government","11":"tag-usman-buzdar","12":"tag-wasa"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab CM visits PDMA office; suggests improvements - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar visited the head office of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to inspect their\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cm-visits-pdma-office-suggests-improvements.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab CM visits PDMA office; 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