Question

aftermath measures in jammu and kashmir

Answer 1

The aftermath measures of 2014 Jammu and Kashmir floods included the following:

• 82 aircraft and helicopters, 10 battalions of Border Security Force,329 columns of Indian Army and 300 boats were pressed in the service of the rescue operations
• Indian army along with Border Security Force and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) evacuated over 200,000 people from different regions of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Financial assistance to the tune of several hundred crores were put in by the Central government and the various state governments.
• Since the Jammu & Kashmir floods were a result of rampant urbanization, climate change that led to unprecedented and intense rains complicated by lack of preparedness, the call for a national action plan to forecasting floods has grown stronger.