Gandhinagar, May 6 -- Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel chaired a video conference on Tuesday to review the state's preparedness for the state-wide Civil Defence Mock Drill scheduled for May 7.

This comes after the Ministry of Home Affairs has directed all states to conduct a Civil Defence Mock Drill on May 7.

Aligning with this, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel chaired the video conference in the presence of Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi, Chief Secretary Pankaj Joshi, ACS Home MK Das, and DGP Vikas Sahay, along with senior officials from all districts.

Preparations of key departments such as GEB, Fire, Forest, PWD, Medical, Home Guard, Revenue, Collector and Police Departments, and Municipal Corporations were thoroughly...