{"id":314026,"date":"2019-07-16T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314026"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:56:19","slug":"army-geared-up-for-worsening-floods-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/army-geared-up-for-worsening-floods-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Army geared up for worsening floods in Assam"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-314027 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Army.jpg 603w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Army-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Army-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Army-554x420.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In view of worsening flood situation in the Eastern region, Lieutenant General MM Naravane, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command, took stock of the situation and assured a quick response by the Army on being requisitioned for deployment on flood relief tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Total of 95 flood relief columns along with additional 31 columns as reserve have been kept on \u2018Stand by\u2019 for this purpose. Army is closely monitoring the flood situation in close coordination with civil administration along large number of flood prone areas. There are 152 monitoring stations which will ensure timely warning of an impending crisis due to floods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Army has alerted flood relief columns to be prepared for deployment on short notice. Mock drills conducted by the nominated army units in the run up to the monsoon will ensure seamless integration of all elements and their synergized application in support of the populace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of worsening flood situation in the Eastern region, Lieutenant General MM Naravane, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command, took stock of the situation and assured a quick response by the Army on being requisitioned for deployment on flood relief tasks. Total of 95 flood relief columns along with additional 31 columns as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[3454,1758],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314026"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314028,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314026\/revisions\/314028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}