NDRF deploys 112 teams for relief operations

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Updated At : 11:43 AM May 26, 2021 IST

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New Delhi, May 25

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has said it has mandated deployment of the highest number of its 112 teams in Odisha and West Bengal as part of relief and rescue preparations in view of the impending Cyclone Yaas.

These teams of NDRF personnel are being deployed in five states and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are expected to be affected by the cyclone developing in the Bay of Bengal.

“Out of these, the highest the number of 52 teams are designated for Odisha, followed by 45 teams for Bengal,” a senior official of the central contingency force said, adding that the rest of the teams are being stationed in states like AP, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Yaas is likely to make a landfall near Balasore in north Odisha around Wednesday noon. — TNS

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