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'Army running against time'
With the weather in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand likely to get bad again, the Army is speeding up the rescue operations, said Army Chief General Bikram...
With the weather in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand likely to get bad again, the Army is speeding up the rescue operations, said Army Chief General Bikram Singh.
He said the Army was doing its best by rushing its personnel with logistics, medical cover and ration to extricate people stuck in the flood-hit areas. "The time is limited. We have got a window till tomorrow (Sunday) as the weather might get bad again. We are rushing our people. Yesterday (Friday) we landed paratroopers. We are trying to reach even those areas where there is nobody at the moment to ensure that in case anybody stuck we are able to get them off from there," the Army Chief said.
He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Combined Graduation Parade held at Air Force Academy, Dundigal, near here on Saturday. "We have increased the army's footprint from 500 to over 6,000 at the moment." He ruled out deploying more men for the rescue operations. "Pressing more troops could prove to be counter -productive as more troops need more ration and equipment for their own consumption," he said.
