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People searching their dear ones on Facebook 9/9/2014 10:03:24 PM New Delhi, Sept 9: "Does anyone have a sense of the flood in Bemina Colony, SDA Colony or Qamarwari. My family is trapped. I have not been able to reach them since morning. All phone lines are dead and I am not able to reach anyone," a well-known journalist Syed Nazakat posed this frantic question on his Facebook wall. With the communication lines completely collapsed in the flood-affected Jammu and Kashmir and tens of thousands of people still stranded, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have flooded with such posts and clueless people were trying to locate their near and dear ones with the new communication tools. In an effort to restore the communication links, Army in the valley has airlifted its state of art communication equipment. BSNL loads are also being airlifted from Bangalore and Jammu to the affected areas, army officials told said. "We badly need boats in Kashmir Valley, not the ration," another journalist Javed Mehboob informed over telephone, who had just returned from Srinagar to Jammu, leaving his family home submerged. Army officials said 57 Army boats and 118 National Disaster Response Force's (NDRF) inflatable boats are actively involved in the rescue operation. Thirty more inflatable boats are being airlifted from Arakonam, Tamil Nadu, they said. Eight engineering task force teams along with boats and other lifesaving equipment have already reached the flood-affected areas to supplement the rescue operation. The situation is being continuously monitored and progress of the events are updated at the office of the Head Quarters Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) in New Delhi, officials said. So far, 23,530 stranded people have been evacuated by the Army in different regions of J&K. It has deployed 215 columns of its personnel for rescue and relief operations who have distributed 5,000 blankets and 140 tents. The Army also distributed 23,000 litres of water and 600 kg of biscuits in the flood-affected areas. Additional water bottles are being airlifted from Chandigarh and Delhi. In an endeavour to provide speedy medical aid to the affected populace, 80 medical teams of the Armed Forces Medical Services have also swung into action. Eighty-five metric tonnes of medicines were airlifted to the Valley and 16 relief camps have been set up in different parts of the State. The Indian Air Force helicopters and transport aircraft have so far evacuated more than 1,200 people to safe places. Altogether 52 aircraft and helicopters of IAF have been pressed into action.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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