New Delhi: With the aim of providing better rescue steps and assistance to people in dealing with natural disasters such as floods and cyclones, four additional battalions of the national disaster response style (NDR) will be fully operational in the middle of next year with four additional years.
Base in the National Capital Region (NCR), Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Four additional battalions will take the total number of NDRF battalions to 16.
After getting approval from the Union Cabinet, the Ministry of Home Union in 2018 gave sanctions on an increase in four additional battalions for NDRF, including two of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), one of the rifles Assam and one of the border security forces (BSF).
Of the two ITBP battalions, each one will be placed in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh while the other two increases from BSF and Assam Rifle will have their bases in Jammu and Kashmir and NCR, officials said on strength, adding that most battalions in the training will complete their special course immediately and will be ready to be placed.
Until now, 12 battalions fully operated with their bases in Guwahati, Nadia (West Bengal), Cuttack, Vadodara, Pune, Ghaziabad, Patna, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Varanasi and Itanagar.
After the induction of four newly raised battalions, more than 4,500 trained personnel will be added to the power of NDRF, the official said.
Usually, one battalion consists of 1,149 personnel with special search and rescue teams, paramedics, electricity, technicians, and dog squad for rescue operations.
For a better and fast response to natural disasters, NDRF in 2016 has moved a proposal to make air wings but was rejected by the government.
Air transportation is provided by the Indian Air Force if there is immediate deployment.
Made in 2006 under the Law of Disaster Management, 2005, NDRF under the Ministry of the UNI home has become the backbone of the operation of assistance and rescue in the country.
Both the flood caused by the explosion of glaciers in Uttarakhand in February this year, the cyclone yaa in Odisha and West West, the cyclone of taukte or the situation of floods arising from heavy rain in many parts of the country, the troops immediately mobilized their battalion and rescue operations.
As part of the proactive steps in the rainy season, 117 complete and complete NDRF Teams of flood rescue consisting of more than 3,000 savings have been positioned earlier in various flood-prone areas in 29 states.
The rescue team was also deployed during heavy rains in Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and other parts of the country in August and September this year.
For rescue work and assistance during the recent floods caused by Cloudburst in Uttarakhand, 17 Tim NDRF Mandiri was deployed there by consultation with the State Authority, which evacuated more than 1,300 people stranded from Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital in addition to distributing materials Help to people.
Training is one of the most important attributes for efficient strength, the center has established the National Institute for National Excellence for Search and Rescue in Nagpur.
With the aim of understanding the best practices of disaster assistance other countries, the troops also joined training with other countries such as China, Finland, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
It is also part of shared training training in New Zealand, Switzerland, the US and Tehran to study best practices to prevent natural disasters.
It also organizes various national and international symposiums about disaster assistance and discusses future threats such as cascading effects of disaster events in the Himalayas region, including landslides, Cloudburst, earthquakes and floods of glacial lake explosions (Glofs).