Meet the Heroes Saving Lives as Himachal Battles Huge Floods


As Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu and Mandi districts grapple with unparalleled heavy rainfall resulting in landslides, floods, and the lack of lives, officers had been going above and past to save lots of lives 24*7.

North India skilled heavy rainfall prior to now 3 days. The Indian Meteorological Division (IMD) has issued warnings that extra heavy downpour is anticipated in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi over the following couple of days.

Himachal Pradesh, particularly, has observed incessant rains resulting in landslides and flash floods, resulting in common destruction. All primary rivers together with Beas, Ravi, Chenab, and Satluj are in spate, as cars, bridges, stores, and homes are being swept away. 

In step with a tweet by way of DGP Satwant Atwal, 30 lives had been misplaced because of those rains within the state, and the monetary loss is anyplace between Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore.

IMD has issued a recent crimson and orange alert in Himachal on Tuesday for the following 24 hours.

“A crimson alert has been issued for extraordinarily heavy rainfall in Solan, Shimla, Sirmaur, Kullu, Mandi, Kinnaur, and Lahaul for the following 24 hours. An orange alert has been issued in Una, Hamirpur, Kangra, and Chamba. A flash flood caution has been issued for Mandi, Kinnaur, and Lahaul-Spiti for the following 24 hours,” mentioned IMD Scientist Sandeep Kumar Sharma.

Top Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Himachal Pradesh Leader Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday and took inventory of the location. Sukhu has sought the aid of the centre. He just lately headed a assessment assembly of the State Crisis Control Authority (SDMA).

The point of interest is now on evacuating 300 stranded vacationers and citizens at Chandertaal, tweeted the CM. He additionally mentioned that the state has now not observed such rains prior to now 50 years.

Whilst movies of the devastation had been circulating on social media, what additionally sticks out is the heroic efforts by way of the police, NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, officers in addition to locals.

Listed here are one of the heroes risking their lives to save lots of others in dire prerequisites:

Mandi Police and SDRF rescued 8 folks, together with a senior couple, the use of a makeshift ladder over a water frame.

Because the Beas river surged, NDRF officers took super efforts to rescue 9 folks from around the river.

Main from the entrance are girls — proper from Director Normal of Police (DGP) Satwant Atwal,  Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kullu Sakshi, and SSP Mandi Soumya — who’ve been main evacuation efforts at the floor.

All officers, from the SSP to constables, had been at the box for the ultimate 48 hours.

Rescue operations had been underway 24*7. Sirmaur police rescued 40 trapped folks as past due as 2:30 am on 9 July.

Any other rescue operation at Kullu was once performed amidst nice non-public risk by way of the NDRF crew.

For those heroes at the floor, the focal point is to rescue lives, be they human or animal. The SDRF Kangra officers stored 4 livestock on the Baner rivulet. 

The state executive has introduced 3 helplines — 1100,1070 and 1077 — for folks caught within the flood.

Edited by way of Pranita Bhat



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