Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 17: Kishtwar Police in collaboration with civil administration has established temporary control room fully equipped with wireless communication and other basic infrastructures at various locations on Kishtwar-Sinthan Top road.
The temporary control rooms alongwith the sufficient deployment of manpower under the command and control of DySP DAR DPL, Kishtwar were established at Kokernag (Kashmir valley), Sinthan Top, Patoto farm in order to regulate the smooth flow of traffic from Srinagar to Jammu and vise-versa and also provide the basic facilities to the flood affected people of Kashmir valley,who were travelling from Kashmir to their destinations.
In addition to this Kishtwar Police headed by SSP Sanjay Kotwal is negotiating the regular supply of essential commodities to Kashmir valley via this road because this is the only route through which all the relief material, essential commodities, medicine etc transported to flood affected valley by road due to the closure of Jammu-Srinagar Highway. A team of senior officer comprising of DySP and a KAS officer is camping at Kukernag alongwith manpower and vehicles for the transportation of flood affected people in co-ordination with police and civil administration of Anantnag distirct.
Till now this team has managed to rescue and transport the large number of flood affected victim who were trapped in Kashmir valley via Sinthan Top.
It is pertinent to mention here that due the heavy rain fall the Kishtwar-Sinthan top road was completely damaged at some places and due to hectic efforts of Kishtwar Police alongwith BRO authorities, the road was made motorable for the supply of essential services to flood affected Kashmir valley.
Moreover, Kishtwar Police has established rescue camps at Sinthan Top, Parna, Chingam, Chatroo, Dadepeth and Kishtwar to help those in distress by providing transport facilities, meals, refreshment and medical facilities to those passing through this route.
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