“But 22 helicopters are not enough. So, we have requested the Defence Ministry to deploy more helicopters to expedite the rescue operations in Uttarakhand. The Defence Ministry agreed to our request and hopefully the additional choppers will be deployed soon,” he told reporters here. According to the Home Ministry, around 62,122 people are still stranded in different inaccessible locations in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand.
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