Chandigarh, Feb. 16 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed Haryana to prepare disaster management plans for dwellings along the rivers in Haryana.

The high court bench of justice Sureshwar Thakur and justice Vikas Suri directed that a team of experts be engaged for the same.

It further directed that adequate funding be ensured for which the state may impose cess on residents to construct concrete bundhs so that chances of flooding of the areas, upon swelling of rivers, during monsoon could be decimated. It also directed that special structural designs be prepared for the construction to be allowed in such areas to avoid ill consequences of natural disasters.

It has also been directed that upstream in rivers, where there is n...