Oct 13, 2013 10:25 (IST)
Krishna Chaudhry, Director General, NDRF on rescue operations:
- Our teams have been working since before dawn to clear the roads
- Electricity and communication departments working to restore power and communication lines so that the state administration can reach out to get a real assessment
- If people are stuck in collapse structures or any other trouble, our teams can reach out to them
- In two districts of Andhra Pradesh, we got information that about 25-30 people were trapped so our teams were sent this morning
- More than 50 teams have been working in the two states and three other teams working in West Bengal as well, 20-30 teams on stand-by
- I think the big fury of the cyclone has passed, people in the cyclone shelters need to be taken back to their place where they make their living so that would be a giant task