{"id":303753,"date":"2018-10-04T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303753"},"modified":"2018-10-04T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T09:01:53","slug":"himachal-pradesh-iaf-airdrops-food-material-at-bara-bhangal-in-kangra-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-iaf-airdrops-food-material-at-bara-bhangal-in-kangra-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: IAF airdrops food material at Bara Bhangal in Kangra district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303755 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/iaf-himachal-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/iaf-himachal-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/iaf-himachal-696x453.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/iaf-himachal-646x420.jpg 646w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/iaf-himachal.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper on Thursday airdropped the food material at Bara Bhangal inside the Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Kangra district, an area not accessible by road, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, there has been an acute shortage of ration owing to closure of trekking routes following heavy snowfall in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Himachal government had arranged a helicopter for air dropping ration for the stranded shepherds due to sudden snowfall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the officials conducted an aerial survey, including over the Thamsar Pass, Jalsu and Khalihani Pass, to search for people stranded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The officials ruled out media reports of starvation, largely among shepherds, with the closure of pathways after the snowfall in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of winter&#8217;s onset, many of Bara Bhangal residents migrate to Bir in Baijnath subdivision, near Palampur town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh is spread over 944 sq km at an altitude above 3,000 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Air Force (IAF) chopper on Thursday airdropped the food material at Bara Bhangal inside the Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Kangra district, an area not accessible by road, an official said. As per the reports, there has been an acute shortage of ration owing to closure of trekking routes following heavy snowfall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[5420,5419,1340,2047,3909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303757,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303753\/revisions\/303757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}