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The Army rescued students from the Chitkara University at Rajpura in Patiala late Sunday night. Army columns have also been deployed in Ropar to plug a breach in a canal which threatens to flood neighbouring villages.
The Indian Army has rescued 910 students and 50 others from a private university in Punjab that was severely flooded in heavy rainfall. Flood relief columns of the Army's Western Command were sent in to assist with the civil administrations rescue efforts in Rupnagar, Mohali, and Panchkula, while engineers focused on preventing the breach of a canal and repairing an embankment to avoid further flooding.
Based on requisition received from the civil administration of Punjab and Haryana, the Flood Relief columns of Western Command were mobilised to assist the civil administration in rescue and evacuation efforts in flood-affected areas.The ...
To take stock of the situation due to continuous heavy rains across the state and in hilly places and to speed up the relief work in the state, Punjab Chief Secretary Anurag Verma on Monday chaired a high level meeting with the administrative secretaries of the concerned departments and the Deputy
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar cancelled pre-scheduled programmes and held an emergency meeting with senior officials as rains continued to batter parts of the state for the third consecutive day. The downpour caused floods, leading to mobilisation of Army's Western Command to assist in rescue and evacuation efforts.