- Title: INDIA: Rehabilitation to start soon in flood affected India's northeast
- Date: 27th September 2014
- Summary: GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) VARIOUS AERIAL VIEWS OF FLOODED AREAS INDIA'S JUNIOR INTERIOR MINISTER, KIREN RIJIJU, SITTING IN HELICOPTER AERIALS OF FLOODED BUILDINGS RIJIJU LOOKING OUT OF HELICOPTER INTERIOR OF HELICOPTER RIJIJU SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE MEDIA SEATED FOR NEWS CONFERENCE RIJIJU SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE CLOSE OF DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INDIA'S NATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE FORCE, O.P SINGH (SOUNDBITE) (English) INDIA'S JUNIOR INTERIOR MINISTER, KIREN RIJIJU, SAYING: "We have deployed total 12 teams from our central National Disaster Response Force. We had to bring four additional teams from Bihar and Odisha. Our CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) forces and portions of the Indian army are also working along with the state government team and central team, who are working hand-in-hand as a team. The rescue operation is completely over now, it is the operation for relief and very soon we will start the process of rehabilitation." MEDIA AT CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) INDIA'S JUNIOR INTERIOR MINISTER, KIREN RIJIJU, SAYING: "All support, whatever is necessary, due to this natural calamity in Assam and Meghalaya will get adequate financial and material support from the central government." RIJIJU ADDRESSING MEDIA
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- Location: India
- Country: India
- Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
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- Story Text: India's junior Interior Minister, Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday (September 27) that rescue operations in the country's flood-struck north-eastern states had concluded and rehabilitation of victims would start soon.
At least 70 people have died and more are missing in floods and landslides caused by heavy rains that lashed India's remote northeast, in the second flood tragedy to strike the subcontinent this month.
Villages were still inundated, even though water levels had receded in most of the affected areas.
Meanwhile Rijiju, conducting an aerial survey of the flood hit Assam state on Saturday, said that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was assisting the Indian army and government in rescue operations.
"We have deployed total 12 teams from our central National Disaster Response Force. We had to bring four additional teams from Bihar and Odisha. Our CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) forces and portions of the Indian army are also working along with the state government team and central team, who are working hand-in-hand as a team. The rescue operation is completely over now it is the operation for relief and very soon we will start the process of rehabilitation," he said while addressing the media in Guwahati city.
Indian authorities have opened 162 relief camps and shelter homes to cater for the thousands who are suffering from the flooding.
"All support, whatever is necessary, due to this natural calamity in Assam and Meghalaya will get adequate financial and material support from the central government," Rijiju added.
Power supply disruptions continued in most parts of Guwahati, the region's biggest city, adding to the woes of people wading through waterlogged homes. Thousands of people in the affected areas have complained about an inadequate supply of relief materials and drinking water.
Earlier this month, at least 460 people died in flooding in Indian-controlled Kashmir and neighbouring Pakistan. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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