The Defence Crisis Management Group (DCMG) continues to coordinate the employment of resources of the three Services and Coast Guard alongwith the representatives of Ministry of Defence, Governments of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, NDMA and NDRF.
The DCMG, an apex level body of the MoD to deal with Crisis Situations was activated on 11 Oct 13. In Phase one, it coordinated the moving forward of various resources and keeping them ready to deploy as per requirement of the State Governments along with setting up of the Unified Task Force Headquarters at Bhubaneswar consisting of an overall Task Force Commander and individual service component commanders. In Phase Two, after the cyclone made the landfall, the effort has been towards damage assessment to enable the Defence Forces to provide the requisite assistance in the shortest possible time. In Phase Three, the focus will be towards relief and rehabilitation. Currently the Defence Forces are involved in clearing the roads and air operations will commence the moment weather opens up.
Large assets of the three Services and Coast Guard are on standby near the disaster zone. Army has deployed 14 columns apart from six Medical Teams and an Engineer Task Force. The Air Force has allocated 30 helicopters and thirteen transport aircraft including two of the recently acquired Hercules. In addition, personnel of Garud Special Forces and Rapid Action Medical Team have been inducted. Navy has kept its large warships ready at Visakhapatnam with rations for 10,000 persons, potable water and medical teams with adequate supplies. Thirty diving teams are also on standby. The Coast Guard has 15 of its ships on alert at Kakinada, Paradip and Visakhapatnam for Search and Rescue near the Coast. Their helicopters and Fixed Wing aircraft have already commenced patrolling the coast. Today they managed to rescue 19 Chinese and one Indonesian crewmen of the sunken Panamanian ship MV ‘Bingo’.
Heavy rains are still continuing in many states. So with the flood threat looming large, the Defence Forces remain ready to take on search, rescue, relief and rehabilitation to assist the State governments in restoring normalcy.
Courtesy: Press Information Bureau (pib.nic.in)
The DCMG, an apex level body of the MoD to deal with Crisis Situations was activated on 11 Oct 13. In Phase one, it coordinated the moving forward of various resources and keeping them ready to deploy as per requirement of the State Governments along with setting up of the Unified Task Force Headquarters at Bhubaneswar consisting of an overall Task Force Commander and individual service component commanders. In Phase Two, after the cyclone made the landfall, the effort has been towards damage assessment to enable the Defence Forces to provide the requisite assistance in the shortest possible time. In Phase Three, the focus will be towards relief and rehabilitation. Currently the Defence Forces are involved in clearing the roads and air operations will commence the moment weather opens up.
Large assets of the three Services and Coast Guard are on standby near the disaster zone. Army has deployed 14 columns apart from six Medical Teams and an Engineer Task Force. The Air Force has allocated 30 helicopters and thirteen transport aircraft including two of the recently acquired Hercules. In addition, personnel of Garud Special Forces and Rapid Action Medical Team have been inducted. Navy has kept its large warships ready at Visakhapatnam with rations for 10,000 persons, potable water and medical teams with adequate supplies. Thirty diving teams are also on standby. The Coast Guard has 15 of its ships on alert at Kakinada, Paradip and Visakhapatnam for Search and Rescue near the Coast. Their helicopters and Fixed Wing aircraft have already commenced patrolling the coast. Today they managed to rescue 19 Chinese and one Indonesian crewmen of the sunken Panamanian ship MV ‘Bingo’.
Heavy rains are still continuing in many states. So with the flood threat looming large, the Defence Forces remain ready to take on search, rescue, relief and rehabilitation to assist the State governments in restoring normalcy.
Courtesy: Press Information Bureau (pib.nic.in)
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