Assam floods: NDRF deploys 3 women rescuers for ops in Silchar
India Today
The NDRF has deployed three women rescuers for undertaking flood rescue duties in Assam.
The situation in Silchar remained grim on Monday as several areas are still waterlogged, officials said.
NDRF Director General Atul Karwal told PTI that the women personnel are "being increasingly deployed for active disaster relief and rescue operations and the force has made a policy to send them across as teams, wherever it is possible."
"The women personnel that we have trained are themselves volunteering to go for active rescue operations. I am very happy to see their enthusiasm and the capacity to undertake hard duties," he said.
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We have also seen that they are able to establish better communication with women and children who are in distress, Karwal said.
The NDRF at present has 178 women personnel in combat after it started inducting them in late 2020.
They have been deployed for alert, backup and assistance duties on a number of occasions in the past but the Assam floods is an operation where they are a part of an active NDRF team that is working on ground to help the affected, the senior NDRF officer quoted first said.
