The search, rescue and relief operations are being carried out with the help of choppers from the army, air force, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the state government.u00a0

in safe hands: Defence personnel assist an evacuee out of a helicopter yesterday. Army personnel battled to reach villages and towns cut off by flash floods and landslides in search of those left stranded by the catastrophe