Gupta said that the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Delhi Fire Service (DFS), and other agencies are engaged in relief and rescue operations.
The Indian Army along with the National Disaster Relief Force and medical teams started the ground movement of personnel and relief assets towards Mandalay.
Amidst the massive influx of devotees at Mahakumbh, the Uttar Pradesh Police, along with PAC, NDRF, SDRF, and Fire Department personnel, demonstrated exceptional honesty and commitment to duty.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami visited the disaster control room on Friday evening to assess the situation and directed officials to speed up the rescue operation in the state following the avalanche that trapped 52 Border Roads Organisation (BRO) workers.
A 20-member rescue team comprising rat miners and NDRF and SDRF personnel was, though able to reach the last point of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel last night, returned empty handed unable to locate anyone among the eight trapped workers.
The Uttar Pradesh government is fully committed to ensuring the success of Mahakumbh 2025, with extensive preparations to handle any emergency.
Jawans of NDRF and Andal police have recovered the scooty, which had drowned yesterday at the Singaran river from here today, while the rider Debashish Dutta (58) is still missing.
The jawans of National Disaster Rescue Force (NDRF) have recovered two bodies of youths, who were drowned in Sitalpur Ghat in the Damodar, under Kulti police station.
These states have been affected due to extremely heavy rainfall, floods and landslides during the south-west monsoon this year.
Three people were killed while six others feared trapped in the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed on Saturday, officials said.
