Assam government constitutes special disaster management team to extend help to quake-hit Nepal

GUWAHATI: Assam Government has constituted a special disaster management team for extending services to the quake-hit people from the state in Nepal.

The team will coordinate with the Indian embassy in the neighbouring country, the ministry of external affairs, ministry of home affairs, National Disaster Response Force and the Nepal Government in tracing out the missing persons, assisting the injured, evacuating stranded and injured persons as well as bodies, an official release said here today.

The team comprises of Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) S N Singh, Commanding Officer 7 APBN Debojit Mukherjee, DCP (Admn) Guwahati Commissionerate of Police, Debraj Upadhyaya, 2 I/C, Commando BN Mandakata Pranjit Bora, senior medical officer of Panbazar police hospital Indrakalpa Hazarika, Medical Officer 4 APBN Utpal Bora, a unit of State Disaster Response Force among others.

The team will immediately proceed to Kathmandu by road with personnel, vehicles, medicines and other essential commodities, the release added.