Chandigarh, Aug. 30 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday constituted a high-powered committee comprising three top officers of the state to supervise the relief and rescue operations in the flood-affected districts of the state on a day-to-day basis.

Chairing a high-level meeting to review the situation of floods, Mann said that the committee comprising senior officers of revenue, water resources, and food and civil supplies department will remain permanently stationed at Amritsar and other flood-affected districts. He asked the deputy commissioners and other officers to ensure that the directions of this committee are implemented in right earnest to provide succour to the flood-affected people. He said the state government is fully...