NEW DELHI, Sept 8: Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag today said troops will continue to carry out relief operations in flood-affected Jammu and Kashmir till the last man is brought to safety.
“The Indian Army will not move back to the barracks till the last man is brought to safety,” he said while stressing on Army’s commitment to help people stranded in floods.
215 Army columns (75-100 personnel each) are deployed in J&K where 23,000 people have been rescued, the Army said.
2,000 people were rescued from critical areas in Srinagar including Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Shivpura and Tent Pura on night of September 7 and 8, it said.
Army officials said the Badami Bagh cantonment in Srinagar is also badly-hit by the floods and around 4,000 personnel and their families had to be evacuated.
But, despite being affected internally, the troops have been tasked to go out and carry out the operations, they said.
150 tonne of rations, one lakh ‘Ready to Eat Meals’, four lakh litre of packed milk, 100 boats, 3,000 tents, 50,000 litre of drinking water and 10,000 blankets are in process of being airlifted, Army spokesman Col Rohan Anand said. (PTI)
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