In a first, NDRF likely to be stationed permanently in J&K
With a motive to deploy trained personnel in the avalanche and flood hit areas, the Central Government for the first time, will soon be establishing a permanent station of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources in the administration said that as the hilly belts, which are much prone to avalanches, snow storms and the plains witnessing floods in which many people as well as security personnel lost their lives, to minimize the casualties with immediate evacuation and prompt action, the NDRF is soon being set up in the twin parts of the Union Territory having full-fledged hi-tech gadgets equipped station.
“To make the NDRF personnel familiar with different challenges of disaster, the Mountaineering Rescue Team (MRT) team of Jammu and Kashmir Police has also recently imparted training to nearly 50 NDRF men in the hilly areas of Samba district,” sources said.
“The recently trained was a second batch of the NDRF, who were trained by professional and local teams of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and besides climatic factors, they were also made aware about the topography and the physical strength required acting promptly during the challenges they could face,” they said.
“Jammu and Kashmir is already a part of the Area of Operation of NDRF but the teams earlier were not permanently stationed in any part of the region and used to operate from Ludhiana,” he said.
