Home Minister Rajnath Singh held discussions with the Chief Secretary and other officials of the Uttarakhand government on the situation arising due to the forest fire on 1 May.
The state has been hit by raging forest fires that destroyed 2,269 hectares of jungles in several districts and claimed at least seven lives.
On 30 April, Governor KK Paul briefed the Home Minister about the situation in the hill state.
Singh directed central officials to provide all possible assistance to the state government to control the forest fires. The Home Ministry has already sent several teams of National Disaster Response Force to help the state government to douse the fire.
An MI-17 chopper of the IAF began water sprinkling operations in Nainital to control the forest fires on 1 May.
Seven persons have been killed due to the forest fires, which have spread to sparsely populated remote hill areas.
Pauri, Nainital, Rudraprayag and Tehri are among the worst-hit districts.
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the Centre was taking the forest fires very seriously and making all efforts to control it.
He said the government will study the reasons behind such major fires and prepare an action plan accordingly.
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