KATHMANDU: A meeting of the National Disaster Management Council held on Sunday decided to make the early warning system more effective after the weather forecast considering the risk of disasters.

A meeting of the Council held under the chair of Acting Prime Minister Prakashman Singh took this decision in view of possible risks following the continuous rain taking place in many parts of the country for the past couple of days.

As decided, vehicular movement will be restricted in the nighttime in the risky areas and provisions will be made effective for disseminating information to the locals to remain safe in the time and areas during the extremely heavy rain, disseminating information and weather bulletin through local FMs and social networking sites and making as well as ensuring provisions to effectively rescue the affected ones.

On the occasion, Acting PM Singh said that the stakeholder and agencies should leave no stone unturned in the preparedness efforts to safeguard the lives of citizens in the time of rain-induced disasters.

Singh stressed for effective implementation of early warning system adding that it was crucial to reduce the damages caused due to the disasters.

During the meeting, reporting was made from the officials of the Home Ministry, Defence Ministry, National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Authority and Department of Roads.

Likewise, Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak shared that all three security agencies were kept in alert position considering the possible risks of disaster.

Chief Secretary Eaknarayan Aryal said that all agencies are kept in alert position to tackle the crisis and impacts of disasters.