New Delhi, The Delhi Hearth Service is up for a complete audit and revamp aimed toward bettering its response time and effectivity in tackling hearth emergencies and different conditions requiring its deployment, officers mentioned on Friday.
Delhi Hearth Providers to bear revamp; LG nods to proposal for tripartite settlement: Officers
Lt Governor VK Saxena has permitted a tripartite settlement involving the DFS, the Directorate Normal of Hearth Providers, House Guard and Civil Defence, Authorities of India, and the Nationwide Centre for Good Governance for the audit and revamp, Raj Niwas officers mentioned.
The initiative was aimed toward enhancing the Delhi Hearth Providers’ immediate response time and effectivity in addressing hearth emergencies and associated providers rendered by the Delhi authorities company, they mentioned.
A proposal of the Delhi authorities’s House Division sought an intensive restructuring of the DFS to spice up its service supply and public security, officers mentioned. The proposal was mentioned with the Director Generals of NCGG and Centre’s Hearth Providers final yr, they mentioned.
“Both the top officers expressed interest in collaborating with the Delhi Fire Services to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of its current operations and recommend improvements across operational, financial, institutional, and legislative dimensions,” mentioned a Raj Niwas official.
The three organisations concerned with the initiative are prone to quickly ink a memorandum of understanding.
The plan is to modernise DFS infrastructure together with hearth preventing tools, making certain availability of all the required instruments and assets to firefighters, common coaching and capability constructing to strengthen their expertise, he mentioned.
The NCGG will concentrate on implementing good governance practices inside the division, making certain transparency, accountability, and responsiveness. Moreover, the NCGG will work on re-engineering departmental processes to enhance effectivity and citizen-centricity, whereas additionally offering capacity-building applications for personnel, officers mentioned.
The Directorate Normal of Hearth Providers, Authorities of India, however, will prioritise the adoption of nationwide requirements and greatest practices in hearth security and prevention. Will probably be achieved by means of making certain alignment with nationwide insurance policies and tips, they said.
The DFS personnel will even bear coaching and capacity-building programmes focussing on the most recent strategies and applied sciences in hearth security, and share assets and experience of the Directorate Normal of Hearth Providers, they added.