Army Using Social Media to Help Jammu-Kashmir Flood Victims

The Army is utilizing social networking applications, for example, Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp to spare the lives of individuals stranded in the flood affected ranges of J&k.

The Army central command is sending all the pain messages got by it on its site, Facebook page and Twitter handle to a Whatsapp gathering, incorporating senior leaders in the Northern Command, from where troops on ground are continuously coordinated to help the individuals in stretch, Army's ADG (Public Information) Maj Gen Shaukeen Chauhan said.

In this way, distress messages from all over the nation have been gotten with restless individuals looking to think about their missing relatives and the Army has attempted to arrive at to them, he said.

The Whatsapp gathering incorporates senior officers of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps and Nagrota-based 16 Corps alongside the units in field regions, Army authorities said.

One of the messages got by the Army was for spotting and helping a nearby MLA Rafiq Ahmed, they said.

The Army officers included the whole time are in charge of taking care of the Indian Army site, its twitter handle and the Facebook page.

In the interim, rescuers of the NDRF have gotten in excess of 450 trouble messages through Whatsapp and SMS from individuals stranded in the submerged regions of Jammu and Kashmir in the most recent two days.

We could safeguard some individuals in the wake of getting these messages. We have asked our commandants and control rooms to streamline these messages so our groups might be administered where they are required," National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) chief O P Singh said.

He said 8,018 individuals have been recovered by them while 19 groups containing around 1,000 faculty are working in the state, where 148 watercrafts have been conveyed and more are constantly carried.

Jammu and Kashmir Floods Information
Emergency Army Helpline:(+91) 011-23019831 · (+91) 011-23322045
Home Ministry Helpline:(+91) 011-23093054 · (+91) 011-23092763
NDRF Control Room:(+91) 011-26107953 · (+91) 0-9711077372, ndrfhq@nic.in.

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