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The responsible authorities in Uttar Pradesh government has sent NDRF, SDRF, and PAC teams to flood-prone UP districts. An official informed the teams have been dent as part of its flood relief and control measures.
Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Uttar Pradesh, P. Guru Prasad, said as per the Chief Minister’s directives, all preparations to handle the flood situation have been completed.
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“The state has been divided into three parts to deal with floods. It includes 24 districts in the highly sensitive category, 16 in the sensitive and 35 in the general category. Teams have been formed and dispatched for special monitoring in these districts,” P. Guru Prasad added.
Informing about the measure, Prasad further added, “In the highly sensitive and sensitive districts, seven NDRF, 18 SDRF, and 17 PAC teams have been pre-positioned to tackle the floods. These teams will coordinate with each other to carry out relief/rescue work as needed. We have deployed seven NDRF teams in Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Bahraich, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ballia, Bareilly, Aligarh and Prayagraj. Similarly, 18 SDRF teams have been deployed in Lucknow, Prayagraj, Moradabad, Etawah, Saharanpur, Mathura, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Ayodhya and Mirzapur.”
Meanwhile, 17 PAC teams have been deployed in other flood-prone UP districts like Sitapur, Prayagraj, Bareilly, Fatehpur, Agra, Azamgarh, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Gonda, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Hamirpur, Ghaziabad, Etah and Meerut.
NDRF, SDRF and PAC teams have also been deployed in some districts to ensure prompt relief work.
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