SHAH ALAM – The Selangor government will carry out a simulation exercise to prepare for the threat of floods in the state, with focus given to improving the process of search-and-rescue operations.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said that in addition to the search-and-rescue operations, the simulation exercise, which will be held next month, would also involve the process of mobilising the operations room and help room.
“During the previous floods, our search-and-rescue operations were a bit slow but other processes were very much intact,” he told the media after officiating the ground-breaking ceremony for affordable housing, Rumah Idaman Bukit Jelutong, here today.
“So, now we have learned from experience that we need further improvements. If floods occur, how do we carry out the search-and-rescue? How to sound the alarm? And so on,” he said.
On the possibility of a global economic slowdown next year, Amirudin said the state government was bracing itself for such an eventuality.
“The recent state government meeting had instructed state Investment, Industry & Commerce and Small & Medium Enterprises Committee chairman Datuk Teng Chang Khim, the state treasury and state secretary to form a panel to assess the possibility of an economic slowdown occurring next year,” he said.
He said the state government would get ready by formulating possible steps that it could take and proposing additional solutions. – Bernama, August 26, 2022
