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 Ahm