India, May 7 -- New Delhi

Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday directed officials to prepare a comprehensive "firefighting master plan" for the national capital, asking all departments concerned to submit within 10 days a detailed blueprint of vulnerable zones, recurring causes of fires, gaps in existing systems and preventive measures.

The directions were issued during a high-level review meeting at the Delhi Secretariat, attended by home and power minister Ashish Sood, chief secretary Rajiv Verma and senior officials from the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) and power utilities, among others.

Gupta said departments linked to fire prevention and emergency res...