Floods in Kelantan, Terengganu, northern Peninsular Malaysia expected in November: Disaster agency

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KUALA LUMPUR: Floods are expected in Kelantan, Terengganu and northern Peninsula Malaysia next month, said the National Disaster Management Agency ...

Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who chaired the meeting, has directed all district, state and federal agencies to ensure adequate human resources, assets, temporary relief centres, depots, front bases and support supplies.

In anticipation of the floods, NADMA said annual leave applications by personnel involved in disaster management would be frozen from November till February next year.More than 80,000 officers and personnel from various agencies were prepared for the floods, it added. For the monsoon season this time, the government has allocated RM4 million from the National Disaster Relief Trust Fund for disaster operations expenditure, and RM100,000 would be distributed to every agency involved.

Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Department would prepare 5,482 flood relief centres to accommodate more than 1.6 million victims.

 

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