Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh has reached Srinagar to monitor relief and rescue operations, which have been accelerated in the flood-hit areas with water levels gradually receding.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last night directed the Union Home Ministry to send senior officers from Delhi and other states to coordinate the relief operations with local administration in the area.
Prime Minister Modi, who reviewed the relief operations in Jammu and Kashmir at a high-level meeting in New Delhi yesterday night, had stressed on providing basic necessities like food and water to people severely affected by the calamity.
A team of central officials led by Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami will also be reaching Srinagar shortly to coordinate the relief and rescue operations.
Over 96,000 people have been rescued by the armed forces and NDRF so far.
Hectic efforts are also underway to gradually restore the snapped telecom links which is hampering the rescue work.
"We will have to make a new road of 1.2 to 1.5 km. We are working on a war footing on that and for that we have already placed the equipments from the Poonch end. We are placing the equipments from the Kalai end today so that work could be started simultaneously from both the ends. It will take another one month to completely restore this line of communication," Commanding Officer 79 RCC (GREF), Pankaj Kumar, said.