Thiruvananthapuram: A group of students has made a number of suggestions to the authorities concerned about the precautions to be taken ahead of the impending monsoon.
The students from the flood-hit areas of Thiruvalla had been enlisted at the activity centre organised by RIGHTS, a Thiruvananthapuram-based group working for the rights of children. They gave their suggestions in a petition given to Thiruvalla municipal chairman Cherian Polac-hirackal during their visit to his office on Tuesday.
They said that aged and sick people and children should be transferred to the camps first from flood-hit areas during a calamity. Special considerations and facilities should be given to girl children and pregnant women in rehabilitation camps where the privacy of lactating women and their children should be ensured, they said.
The municipality must ensure makeshift libraries in such camps, they added. The children should be provided with toys for playing in such camps.
The basic infrastructure in the camps should be disabled-friendly. The electricity system should be rewired to ensure light and fans. There should be facility for water supply also, they said.
Mr Polachirackal promised to provide child-friendly facilities during such calamities. The students consisted of Varsha Shaji, Nimisha Saji, Savitha Kochumon, Reshma Rajan, Kishore Kumar and Varun Shaji belonging to areas like Thirumulapuram, Adumbada and Mangalasserry colony. These areas were badly hit during the floods in August 2018.
