Uttarakhand floods: Amit Shah speaks to CM, assures help
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The Home Minister stated in addition to the NDRF and the State Disaster Response Force, groups of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have reached the affected areas.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spoke to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and warranted him of all attainable help to take care of the state of affairs arising within the wake of a glacier breaking off and inflicting flood in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district.
In a sequence of tweets in Hindi, Mr. Shah stated groups of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed for rescue and reduction operations whereas extra troops of the drive had been being airlifted from Delhi.
“I’ve spoken to Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat ji, DG of ITBP and DG of NDRF concerning the pure catastrophe in Uttarakhand. All the officers involved are engaged on a warfare footing to safe the folks.
“NDRF teams have left for rescue operations. Every possible help will be provided to ‘Devbhoomi’,” he stated.
Mr. Shah stated the Centre is continually monitoring the state of affairs in Uttarakhand.
“Some more teams of NDRF are being airlifted from Delhi and sent to Uttarakhand. We are constantly monitoring the situation there,” he stated.
The Home Minister stated in addition to the NDRF and the State Disaster Response Force, groups of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have reached the affected areas. The chief minister is on his method to the affected areas and the Indian Air Force has been alerted, he stated.
“I want to assure the people of Uttarakhand that the (Narendra) Modi government is fully behind them in this hour of crisis and will provide all possible help so that people can get out of this crisis as early as possible,” the Union residence minister stated.
Mr. Shah, who’s in Maharashtra, stated Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai is stationed on the management room of the ministry in New Delhi and is personally monitoring the state of affairs.
“I will also reach Delhi in the evening,” he stated.
Shah stated the prime minister, who was in Assam, has spoken to the Uttarakhand chief minister to take inventory of the state of affairs.
A house ministry spokesman stated 4 NDRF groups (about 200 personnel) are being airlifted to Dehradun and they’re going to attain Joshimath.
A glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday, main to an enormous flood within the Dhauli Ganga river and inflicting large-scale devastation within the higher reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas.
More than 150 labourers working in an influence mission are lacking, officers stated.
Homes alongside the best way had been swept away because the waters rushed down the mountainsides in a raging torrent. There had been fears of injury in human settlements downstream. Many villages had been evacuated and other people taken to safer areas.