Ockhi Cyclone Dec-2017 Report English

Annexure-03- Intimation letter sent to District and state officials by e-mail about the Public Inquest
We wish to thank you in advance for this appointment. We wish to also stand by the
administration in patiently listening and appreciating what it has to state beyond what is
stated in the Government and district web sites of the Government.
Thanking you once again,
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(Kodikal Sheik Abdullah)
Convenor, Local Organising Committee of the
Cyclone Ockhi Public Inquest
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To,
The District Superintendent of Police,
Kanyakumari District.
27 th December, 2017
Respected Sir,
We are writing to you in continuation with the letter of intimation sent regarding the Public
Inquest on Cyclone Ockhi and its devastation on Kanyakumari’ headed by Justice Kholse
Patil (Retd Judge of the Mumbai High Court) Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Ms. Saba Naqvi, Dr,.
Ramathal, Mr. Nanjil Kumaran IPS (Retd) and others.
We wish to bring to your kind attention that this high-level team shall be visiting and meeting
victims in all affected fishermen villages as well as villages with agriculture, farming and
horticultural activities, cattle farming as well as Kaani settlements within all parts of the
district.
The High Level Team would like to meet you personally as well as all other senior officials in
the districts like the District Collector, the different Assistant Directors of Fisheries, the
Assistant Director of Agriculture, the Assistant Director of Horticulture and others to also
ensure that the Public Inquest team also “knows, seeks and obtains” information about the
official version of the Government in this human disaster before concluding our Public
Inquest report on the disaster and the response of the Government and its instrumentalities.
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