JK News Today
Udhampur, Mar 23:
Indian Air Force today came for the rescue of the stranded civilians of Jammu and Kashmir by air lifting 244 civil passengers from Udhampur to Leh.
Due to recent snow and cold waves in the entire northern areas of J&K, a lot of civilians of Leh and Kargil sector were stranded in Jammu and Udhampur. IAF operated its special aircraft IL-76 popularly known as Gajraj to airlift civilians on requisition by J&K Government.
Air Force Station, Udhampur was the staging base for this rescue activity. Special arrangements were made by Air Force Station Udhampur and District Administration Udhampur for Security and Marshalling of civilians which included Ladies and Children also, into the technical area of Air Force.
The local administration has been in touch with ATC Air Force Station, Udhampur and their Officers were liaisoning for programme details of the IL-76 which is also dependent on weather to certain extent so that no inconvenience is caused to the passengers and re-scheduling/ re-programming of the entire rescue exercise is expeditiously passed on to the passenger to avoid their inconvenience.
